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From Amarok Wiki

How to become involved

1. Most discussion regarding Amarok development happens in IRC. Join us in #amarok on irc.freenode.org.
2. Join the mailing list.
3. Read the HACKING document. It goes over the Amarok coding style.
4. Submit your patch. There are several channels to do so:

• Search for the problem you are solving on KDE's bugzilla and attach the patch. If there isn't a bug for it yet, create a new bug or wishlist and then attach the patch.
• IRC. IRC has the advantage that a developer might happen to be online and has the time to test your patch, it could be applied immediately or give immediate feedback.
• Mailing list. Things often get overlooked in the mailing list, so do not rely on it. However it is a good method of bringing up a subject with the development team.

How to Hack on Amarok's Codebase Using KDevelop

• Install the KDevelop IDE (Integrated Development Environment). You should use your distribution's package, or build using Konstruct.
• Fire up KDevelop and from the "Project" menu, select "Open Project...", then choose the amarok.kdevelop file from the extragear/multimedia/amarok directory.
• Compile Amarok normally once through the standard means.
• Choose Build Project, from the Build menu to build Amarok whenever you have made changes.
• If you want to find where the source for a particular feature is, a good method is to find a (English) string associated with that feature and then search for it via Edit->Find in Files.