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General Information

• Links
  • Changelog - the most recent changes made to the game
  • Latest commits - Up-to-date commit messages

• Coding Guidelines
  • HackingWesnoth - guide for programmers
  • CodingStandards - for programmers
  • DeveloperGuide - for those who received SVN commit rights

• Library documentation
  • http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ - Standard Template Library

Tools and Packaging

• Supporting Websites
  • WesnothSVN - accessing the source code
  • http://websvn.wesnoth.org/ Web-Access to svn - Gna! - websvn -
  • http://gettext.wesnoth.org/ - gettext status
• Compiling
  • CompilingWesnoth - how to compile Battle for Wesnoth (it's not hard)
• Packaging and Releasing
  • ReleasingWesnoth - steps to follow to release a new version
  • WesnothPackagersGuide - guidelines for packaging Wesnoth for different platforms
• Documentation
  • Doxygen - Documentation generator
• More stuff
  • ExternalUtilities (Wercator, CampGen, wmllint, etc.)
  • MaintenanceTools WMLLint, WMLIndent and WMLScope

I want to start coding, what can i do?

• EasyCoding - Bugs and features that are easy to implement for new coders
• NotSoEasyCoding - Bugs and features which are doable but lacking someone working on them

Game - Create content

• BuildingScenarios and related useful forum discussions:
  • Beginning Campaign Development
  • A Balancing Act
• ReferenceWML

Code documentation

• http://devdocs.wesnoth.org - generated code documentation

AI

• WritingYourOwnAI - write a C++ plugin
• FormulaAI - Guide to the experimental formula AI branch

Themes

• ThemeSystem - customizing the screen layout for the game and the editor

Multiplayer

• WesnothdDesign - Guide to the design of wesnothd, the multiplayer server.

Communication, Feedback, Events

Gna! links

• http://bugs.wesnoth.org/ - Gna! - bugs and feature requests
• http://patches.wesnoth.org/ - Gna! - patches

Mailing lists

• https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev/ - wesnoth-dev
• https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-commits/ - wesnoth-commits

IRC

• freenode/#wesnoth-dev - IRC (alias to irc.freenode.net)
• http://irclog.wesnoth.org/ - IRC logs

Miscellaneous

• DebugMode and CommandMode - in game debugging commands
• Missing unit animations - what's available and what's missing