First and foremost, thank you for your interest in contributing to Ente 🙏
There are many ways to contribute, and most of them don't require writing code.
This is perhaps the most impactful contribution you can make. Spread the word. Online on your favorite social media channels. Offline to your friends and family who are looking for a privacy-friendly alternative to big tech.
Just hang around, enjoy the vibe. Answer someone's query on our Discord, or pile on in the sporadic #off-topic rants there. Chuckle (or wince!) at our Twitter memes. Suggest a new feature in our Github Discussions, or upvote the existing ones that you feel we should focus on first. Provide your opinion on existing threads.
These might seem like small things, but it provides us energy. Knowing that there is a community of people who care for what we are building.
If you're interested in helping out with translation, please visit our Crowdin projects to get started:
| Project | |
|---|---|
| Auth |  |
| Photos |  |
| Photos Web / Desktop |  |
If your language is not listed for translation, please create a GitHub issue to have it added. It is okay to have partial translations. Once ~90% of the strings in a language get translated, we will start surfacing it in the apps.
Thank you for your support.
The help guides and FAQs for users of Ente products are also open source, and can be edited in a wiki-esque manner by our community members. More than the quantity, we feel this helps improve the quality and approachability of the documentation by bringing in more diverse viewpoints and familiarity levels.
See docs/ for how to edit these documents.
Code is a small aspect of community, and the ways mentioned above are more important in helping us. But if you'd really like to contribute code, it is best to start small. Consider some well-scoped changes, say like adding more custom icons to auth.
Each of the individual product/platform specific directories in this repository have instructions on setting up a dev environment.
For anything beyond trivial bug fixes, please use features requests and discussions instead of performing code changes directly.
Tip
Please remember that code is a important, but small, part of the overall big picture that makes a product a joy to use. Something that's easy in code is not necessarily the right choice for the product as a whole. So we'll repeat - there are other ways to contribute than code that we'd request you to consider.
If you haven't already done so, consider starring this repository or leaving a review on PlayStore, AppStore or AlternativeTo.