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</li><li>Send a patch to the developers' mailing list. The best way to make the patch is with the "git diff" command, but if you don't know what I'm talking about, just attach the files you modified to your email. Make sure you give a full explanation of what the patch is for and how it works.
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</li><li>Test the latest version, and report any bugs, bad design or any other problems to the developers' mailing list: freeguide-tv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
</li><li>Check out the current <a class='urllink' href='http://bugs.launchpad.net/freeguide-tv/+bugs' rel='nofollow'>bugs list</a> - most of the tasks there are programming, but if you're not a programmer look for tasks like "Check X works with Y" or "Write documentation for Z" or something like that.
</li><li>Choose a task, or if you can't find anything appropriate, ask on the mailing list what needs doing. Try to find something you care about or are interested in - it's more fun!
</li></ul><div class='vspace'></div><h3>More info</h3>
<p>The <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> development team are open to contributions from anyone and we expect to accept most patches we receive, except ones that differ radically from our aim of creating a nice, simple TV guide.
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<p class='vspace'><span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> itself is written entirely in Java (1.4 or higher required), but it uses the <a class='urllink' href='http://xmltv.org' rel='nofollow'>XMLTV</a> tools (XMLTV is a separate project) which are written in Perl.
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<p class='vspace'>At the moment you need Sun's <a class='urllink' href='http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp' rel='nofollow'>Java Development Kit</a>. We want to change this so <span class='wikiword'>FreeGuide</span> can work on an all Free Software platform. If you are interested in helping out, please get in touch - we will be keen to help.
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<p class='vspace'>The releases are built using Apache's <a class='urllink' href='http://ant.apache.org/' rel='nofollow'>Ant</a> build tool. You can use the <span class='wikiword'>AntFarm</span> plugin in <span class='wikiword'>JEdit</span>, or Eclipse, or the command line, but you will need ant.
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