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<h1 class="title">Contributing to GraphicsMagick</h1>
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<p>The future and success of GraphicsMagick depends on your contributions.
By contributing to GraphicsMagick you will benefit from the
features/fixes you contribute, can take pride in taking part in the
development of a quality product, and you can tell your friends that you
contribute to the GraphicsMagick project.</p>
<p>There are a number of ways you can contribute:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Submit bug reports to the GraphicsMagick bug tracking system at
SourceForge.</li>
<li>Submit patches to the GraphicsMagick patch submission system at
SourceForge.</li>
<li>Perform test builds on unusual systems and report the results.</li>
<li>Submit ideas and proposed designs to the graphicsmagick-core
mailing list.</li>
<li>Create a new language interface, dependent library, or application.</li>
<li>Join the GraphicsMagick Group as a full-fledged developer with CVS
commit access.</li>
</ul>
<p>Regardless of how you choose to contribute, your contributions will be
treated with the respect and value that they deserve.</p>
<p>Becoming a member of the GraphicsMagick Group requires a majority vote
from existing members. Your chances of being admitted to the group are
increased significantly if you have a proven track-record of success on
other open source projects, are a recognized expert in the field, or have
already demonstrated your capabilities and commitment by contributing to
the project in other ways. Please contact Bob Friesenhahn
<<a class="reference external" href="mailto:bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us">bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us</a>> in order to be considered for group
membership.</p>
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<h1>Areas To Contribute</h1>
<p>The following are areas where significant contributions may be made to
the GraphicsMagick project:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support building and distributing GraphicsMagick RPMs for Linux.</li>
<li>Act as formal maintainer for the Gentoo Linux GraphicsMagick ebuild so
that it is added back to Portage. This is not difficult since the
ebuild has been actively maintained via the Gentoo bug tracking system.
At the very least, registering a vote for the Gentoo bug may be helpful.
See <a class="reference external" href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190372">http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190372</a>.</li>
<li>Set up an FTP mirror site for GraphicsMagick.</li>
<li>Create a language interface using SWIG <<a class="reference external" href="http://www.swig.org/">http://www.swig.org/</a>> to
support scripting in Perl, Python, TCL/TK, Guile, MzScheme, Ruby,
Java, PHP, and CHICKEN, based on a common implementation.</li>
<li>Create a new utility command parser based on a separate LALR or
XML-based syntax definition, and using an approach suitable to
replace the existing error-prone command parsers in magick/command.c</li>
<li>Create a vector encoder for EPS, Postscript, PDF, SVG
<<a class="reference external" href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/">http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/</a>>, Macromedia Flash
(SWF), WebCGM <<a class="reference external" href="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/">http://www.w3.org/Graphics/WebCGM/</a>>, or WMF.</li>
<li>Create an OpenEXR coder based on the OpenEXR
<<a class="reference external" href="http://www.openexr.com/">http://www.openexr.com/</a>> library from Industrial Light & Magic.</li>
<li>Create a <em>pstoedit</em> module to import Postscript, EPS, and PDF
files as vector data using pstoedit <<a class="reference external" href="http://www.pstoedit.net/">http://www.pstoedit.net/</a>> which
already includes a high-quality driver to render Postscript vectors via
GraphicsMagick. This module could also export vector data in many
formats using pstoedit's output drivers.</li>
<li>Work on adding EXIF profile writing support which works for JPEG and
TIFF formats.</li>
<li>Add integrated Adobe XMP
<<a class="reference external" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/index.html">http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/index.html</a>> profile support for
TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, EPS, and Postscript.</li>
<li>Port Erik Reinhard's super-cool Parameter Estimation For
Photographic Tone Reproduction
<<a class="reference external" href="http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~reinhard/Reinhard02/">http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~reinhard/Reinhard02/</a>> algorithm to
GraphicsMagick.</li>
<li>Create a replacement (using a portable Widget set such as FLTK) for the
IMDisplay Windows GUI program and possibly the X11 'display' program.</li>
<li>Create an interface between GraphicsMagick and OpenOffice.org.
<<a class="reference external" href="http://www.openoffice.org/">http://www.openoffice.org/</a>> so that OpenOffice may load and save
any format supported by GraphicsMagick. OpenOffice.org offers a
separate SDK so there may be a number of other opportunities to
explore.</li>
<li>Complete the port of ralcgm to Windows so that it may be used as a
delegate under Windows.</li>
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