Hello there, glad you are reading this page! We have a broad spectrum of topics to contribute, and some of them do not even require programming or scripting knowledge. With each contribution, you don't just get to help out your fellow postmarketOS friends, but there's always a chance to learn something new and sharpening your skills along the way. And of course fun, fame and epic stories to tell to your grandchildren about what a badass contributor you have been. Now pick what interests you most.
Reporting issues
Reporting issues you found can be of high value for developers and other users. With that being said, processing issue reports can also take a lot of time. The amount of time can be minimized by the following:
- Search the issue tracker to find if your issue was already reported.
- Try to figure out which exact circumstances trigger the problem.
- When reporting a new issue, please include all potentially relevant information.
Documentation
Most of our documentation is in the wiki. We have pages on devices, tooling, UIs and more. You can help improve these pages from simple spelling and grammar fixes to making more complex changes.
Testing
If you have already familiarized yourself with postmarketOS a bit, consider joining the Testing Team to get cool new stuff first and help with making the project more stable for your particular device:
- New changes to postmarketOS edge
- New postmarketOS releases
You can do this no matter which device you run postmarketOS on — QEMU, phones, tablets, chromebooks or other laptops, SBCs, smartwatches, etc.
Development
Suitable tasks to get a start in postmarketOS development:
Contributing upstream
postmarketOS builds upon a lot of other free software projects. Consider getting involved upstream:
Alpine Linux • Plasma Mobile • Phosh • Gnome Mobile • SXMO
Helping other people
Contributing financially
If you like postmarketOS and would like to help us with keeping our infrastructure running, accelerating the development and more then you can also make a donation. We list our finances transparently on our OpenCollective page.
➡️ Go to our OpenCollective page