Chaitanya Chaitanya wrote (in a message from Sunday 21)
 > i want to be a XFree86 developer 
 > 
 > But how ?

You should start by checking the mailing list archives... This
question was asked exactly one week ago. 

Egbert Eich answered:

 > Please check out this:
 > http://www.xfree86.org/developer.html
 > 
 > You can also find some info at 
 > 
 > http://xfree86.linuxwiki.org
 > 
 > where I've started adding some development pages.

And here was my answer:

 > There are many ways to participate, depending on your level of
 > knowledge about X in general, the XFree86 server and other related
 > topics.
 > 
 > You can contribute by developing code, testing existing code and
 > providing feedback, by writing documentation, and probably other means
 > that I don't have in mind right now. 
 > 
 > As a starting point, if you don't already have a precise idea of the
 > area on which you'd like to help, you can browse the bugzilla database
 > (http://bugs.xfree86.org/) and look for problems not yet solved for
 > which you may be able to submit a solution. There have also been wish
 > lists of new features posted (among other) to the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 > list; check the archives. 
 > 
 > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is aimed to be link between developpers (in
 > the wide sense of the term, including documentation). 
 > 
 > If you have code to submit, use the bugzilla to submit it. The team of
 > developpers with commit access will look at it and commit it into the
 > XFree86 repository if it's worth.
 > 
 > Documentation enhancements are very welcome too and can be submitted
 > through bugzilla too. 
 > 
 > Commit access is proposed after some time to people who are regularly
 > submitting code that gets included and/or who are working on an area
 > of the XFree86 code not already well covered by existing commiters.

                                        Matthieu
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