.. vim: set fileencoding=utf-8 :
.. Roy Wallace
.. 28 Mar 2012
.. 
.. Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Idiap Research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland
.. 
.. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
.. it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
.. the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.
.. 
.. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
.. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
.. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
.. GNU General Public License for more details.
.. 
.. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
.. along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

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 Join the |project| community
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Welcome to the |project| developers community!

First, we suggest you subscribe to the official |project| developers mailing list, by sending an email to: ``bob-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com``. This mailing list is focused on the development of |project| with an emphasis on:

1. A place to start discussing potential issues/bugs
2. Problems compiling or deploying |project|
3. Problems with |project| build or documentation infrastructure
4. Plans for next releases

In the following sections of this Developer's Guide we will describe the important aspects of |project| development that you should know about, including :ref:`compiling the code <section-compilation>`, :ref:`implementing new functionality <section-development>` or :ref:`fixing bugs <section-ticketreporting>`, and :ref:`contributing back to the community <section-contributing>`.

Thanks for joining and we hope to hear from you soon.

The |project| developers.

.. include:: links.rst
.. _`this address`: bob-devel+subscribe@googlegroups.com

