Title:  Get Involved
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Getting Involved
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Thank you for your interest in Apache Wave.  We are only as strong as our community and we always
welcome contribution from new participants.

Basics
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The first step in getting involved is to join the [Wave Developer mailing list](mailing-lists.html).  
It is here where we discuss the code, design the protocols, plan for the future and
consider the health of the community.  There are many ways to get involved including:

* Code Development
* Documentation
* Requirements Discussion
* User Feedback
* Design
* Helping with the web site.
* Etc...


Coding
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We welcome patches to the code. If you're looking for something to work on:

* Check out our open issues in the [Issue Tracker](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WAVE).
* If you want to work on something not listed here, go ahead.  You can even add an issue if you like.
* If you need help, don't hesitate to ask for it on the mailing list.
* When your patch is ready, put it on the Review Board at [https://reviews.apache.org/dashboard/](https://reviews.apache.org/dashboard/) and request code review.  
* You can submit the patch for the Wave Git mirror repository (wave-git).

Documentation
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Right now we are in the process of migrating documentation from
[waveprotocol.org](http://www.waveprotocol.org/) and the
[wave-protocol Google Code site](http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/) to the documentation repository. All help is welcome.

Releases
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Every so often we like to package up the current state of the repositories into a release for everyone to use. One of the committers will propose on the wave-dev mailing list the creation of a release candidate, and offer the prebuilt artifacts they suggest to release.

Everyone is welcome to download and try out these builds, offering their feedback onto the wave-dev list, and providing a vote for/against the release of these artifacts.

The current release can be found on the [Downloads](/wave/downloads.html) page.

The main repository (incubator-wave.git) is also set up to automatically run tests and build potential artifacts after every commit using Jenkins.
More information about these nightly builds can be found [here](/wave/nightly-builds.html).