Contribute

Gentoo is a community driven operating system. Users around the world develop and improve gentoo daily. There is a core staff but also normal users have many ways to support the Gentoo linux community. When you file a bug, write a patch or update documentation it benefits not only you, but the whole Gentoo linux project and fellow gentoo users. The whole Gentoo community take part to make Gentoo the leading source-based linux distribution. This page describes different ways to contribute to the Gentoo linux community.

Forums
Share your ideas, ask help or help other users. Before posting, remember to read the forum guidelines. Gentoo forums

Bug reporting (Bugzilla)
If you happen to find a bug in gentoo, you should file a bug report to let developers to know about the problem. This helps developers to spot the problem and fix it. Its importa̛nt to carefully follow the rules and provide all needed information with bug report. Its important to locate the bug and report it to right place. Gentoo website has a detailed bug reporting guide. Gentoo related bugs can be reported to Gentoo bugzilla.

Contribute to Gentoo wiki
Take the time to read the wiki guidelines and how to use it. Anyone may post articles as they see fit; however we ask that you try to follow our Naming Conventions and Style Guide. For those new to the wiki please check out the excellent Mediawiki editing guide and test out what they have learned in the Sandbox.


 * Share your experience of solving specific problems or request articles you would like to see.
 * Help keeping articles up-to-date and fix misspellings.
 * Correct inaccurate content.
 * Reduce and combine duplicate pages.
 * convert articles from the old wiki archive.

Develop (Launchpad)

 * Write ebuilds for portage and supply them to sunrise overlay or Gentoo bugzilla.
 * Write patches and supply them to bugzilla.
 * There is a Gentoo project on Launchpad where you can help developing Gentoo linux.

Spread the word
Spread the word about Gentoo. The more people use it, the more will contribute.

Donate
Gentoo is maintained by the Gentoo staff and the community. None of them get paid for their hard work. There are many ways to support. If any other way doesnt work out, you can certainly help by donating money, hardware or providing hosting.