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<h4>MantisBT Development</h4>
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	MantisBT is free software. We encourage <b>you</b> to dive into the source
	and help on new features and bugfixes. That is the way free software works.
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<p>
	Here are some important pointers for MantisBT-Development:
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<h5>The source code</h5>

<p>
	MantisBT <a href="http://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt">source code</a> and <a href="http://github.com/mantisbt-plugins">plugins</a> are hosted on GitHub.

	Detailed information on how to use git with MantisBT can be found in the
	<a href="/docs/master-1.2.x/en/developers.html">Mantis Bug Tracker
	Developers Guide</a>.

	Help with setting up Git and learning basic usage can be found in
	<a href="http://help.github.com">GitHub's Help pages</a>.
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<h5>Documentation</h5>
	<ul>
		<li>
			<a href="/docs/master-1.2.x/en/developers.html">Mantis Bug Tracker Developers Guide</a>
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		<li>
			<a href="/wiki/doku.php/mantisbt:coding_guidelines">MantisBT Coding Conventions</a>
		</li>
	</ul>

<h5>Communication</h5>
	<ul>
		<li>
			Often times MantisBT developers hang out on IRC @ <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/mantisbt">#mantisbt</a> on the freenode network
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		<li>
			It's a good idea to subscribe to the mantisbt-dev mailinglist - details are on the <a href="/mailinglists.php">mailing lists page</a>.
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	</ul>

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