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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
  • Git_for_Wesnoth_Crash_Course - guide for contributors who are new to git
  • HackingWesnoth - guide for programmers
  • CodingStandards - for programmers
  • DeveloperGuide - for those who received repository commit rights
  • SoftwareTesting - for programmers

• Library documentation
  • C++ Reference
  • Boost documentation

• Debugging Tips
  • DebuggingWesnoth

Tools and Packaging

• Supporting Websites
  • WesnothRepository - accessing the source code
  • http://gettext.wesnoth.org/ - gettext status
• Compiling and Building
  • Compiling Wesnoth - how to compile Battle for Wesnoth (it's not hard)
• Packaging and Releasing
  • ReleasingWesnoth - steps to follow to release a new version
• Documentation
  • Doxygen - Documentation generator
• More stuff
  • MaintenanceTools WMLLint, WMLIndent and WMLScope
  • UsingGooglePerformanceTools to profile Wesnoth CPU and memory usage.

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
• GettingStarted
• Frequently Proposed Ideas - summary of past often-repeated forum discussions
• Glossary

Game - Create content

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

Code documentation

• http://devdocs.wesnoth.org - generated code documentation
• AI
  • Wesnoth_AI - Starting point for AI documentation
• Themes
  • ThemeSystem - customizing the screen layout for the game and the editor
• Multiplayer
  • WesnothdDesign - Guide to the design of wesnothd, the multiplayer server.
• Gui2 - The new Gui-Framework
  • Widgets
  • GUIToolkit
  • Layout
  • Gui2 WML
    • GUICanvas
    • GUIToolkit
    • WindowDefinitionWML

Communication, Feedback, Events

• http://bugs.wesnoth.org/ - bug reports and feature requests
• http://patches.wesnoth.org/ - patches/pull requests

• Mailing lists
  • https://mailman.wesnoth.org

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

• Forum - http://forum.wesnoth.org

• This wiki - http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/Main_Page

• FOSDEM
  • Fosdem2008
  • Fosdem2009
  • Fosdem2010
  • Fosdem2011
  • Fosdem2012

• Google Summer of Code
  • SummerOfCodeIdeas - Ideas for GSoC
  • SoC_Information_for_Google - Our organization profile for Google
  • SoC_People_to_bug_on_IRC - Who GSoC students can ask for help

Miscellaneous

• DebugMode and CommandMode - in game debugging commands
• Missing unit animations - what's available and what's missing
• http://units.wesnoth.org/ - Unit reference