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OpenVZ это продукт с открытым исходным кодом.И если он Вам нравится, то лучше что вы можете сделать - это помочь проекту. Есть много способов помочь проекту. И не важно являетесь ли Вы обычным пользователем, гиком или хардкорным разработчиком - всегда есть одна или больше важных вещей, которые Вы можете сделать для OpenVZ.

Этот список содержит часть способов поддержать проект.

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Contribute code

If you want to become an OpenVZ developer, please subscribe to the devel mailing list and do one of the following:

• Tell what you want to do to community and suggest new features/ideas.
• Fix open bugs.
• Send patches for kernel and userspace code.
• Implement ideas from wishlist.
• Contribute to CRIU development.

Contribute quality

• Submit good bug reports.
• Help us to reproduce old bugs on latest OpenVZ versions.
• Participate in testing of new versions of kernel, ploop, vzctl and give us feedback about changes. Information required to testing is in QA section.
• Correct spelling and grammar mistakes in the documentation.
• Take a look at QA wishlist

Contribute documentation

• Help write good documentation.
• Help maintain the wiki.
• Send us corrections/additions to the existing manuals.
• Write your own guide or HOWTO, or help to expand stub articles.
• Translate the documentation into another language.
• Proofread existing documentation, follow the examples, and make corrections.
• Create screencasts, demo video, screenshots, and graphics for the documentation.
• Expand the of technical terms (so non-geeks can understand).

Contribute publicity

Note: As OpenVZ gets more popular, there will be more people wanting to contribute.

• Put an appropriate banner, button or just some text on your site linking back to openvz.org.
• Write reviews about new OpenVZ features.
• Spreading the word
• Convince people to use Vituozzo containers when possible.
• Write about new ways of using OpenVZ.
• Submit artwork (icons, backgrounds, logos).

Contribute appreciation

• Be polite when reporting bugs or asking for new features; after all, the developers have no obligation to do it.
• Express your appreciation to developers (through e-mail, bug reports, and IRC).
• Give the project or a developer a donation/gift (many of us have wish lists for this).

Contribute support

• Participate in the mailing lists, IRC channel, forums, if you know some the answer to a question asked, feel free to share it with others.
• Contribute to (or start) an online support group.
• Write HOWTOs and post them in the Tutorials and Howtos or your own blog.
• Setup a public OpenVZ mirror.
• Contribute new OS templates.

Contribute code of infrastructure (DevOps)

• Automate all the things
• Make packages with OpenVZ components

Contribute creativity

• Web design for OpenVZ services. See design tasks.
• OpenVZ T-shirt prints: new ideas
• Artwork: update OpenVZ logo (may be material design?)

See also

• Development portal
• Membership