XaoS online help - Development
Description: XaoS, realtime, fractal, zoomer

# Development

XaoS is free software. One of the most significant rights its license grants to you is the right to freely get, study and improve its source code, which is available from the XaoS homepage.

XaoS has an open development model. All development is coordinated via Google Code at `http://gnuxaos.googlecode.com/`. Development versions are available via Subversion at `https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=5771`, so if you are interested in the future of XaoS, give the latest source a try! We also have a several discussion groups, which you can join if you want to discuss XaoS with others or participate in the development process.

If you want to do some development, you are encouraged to send your work back to the authors; if it is well done, it will be added to the next release. All changes should be submitted to the Google Code issue tracker.

XaoS is quite easily extensible. You might want to read a bit about its internals in the file doc/xaosdev.info. XaoS is also portable, so if it doesn't work on your favorite platform (or there is just an old version available), you could quite easily port it.

## Volunteer Opportunities

XaoS needs volunteers to make it the best fractal program it can be! You don't have to be a programmer to help. The following tasks open to volunteers:

Improving the documentation via the Wiki (and improving the DokuWiki converter).

Compiling binaries for your favorite operating system.

Reviewing the source code, adding comments, and checking lines which generate warnings during compilation.

Creating additional tutorials and examples.

Translating XaoS into your language.

Implementing feature requests.

Fixing outstanding bugs.

If you would like to volunteer, join the discussion groups and let us know. We would be happy to help you get started!