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[[!meta title="Development"]]

ProteanOS needs more contributors!  If you're interested in getting involved,
please [[contact_us|contact]] on the IRC channel and/or mailing list.

There are a variety of ways in which you can help shape the future of this
operating system distribution:

Software Packaging
==================

<img src="/media/tango-64/package-x-generic.png" alt="software packaging"
class="icon-64-top-left">

Packaging is the preparation of build instructions and metadata for software
programs and libraries to be built and installed on users' systems.

Source packages have a documented [format][spf-2.0], and
[[tutorials_on_packaging|doc/pkg]] are available.

There is always [[more_software_to_be_packaged|dev/pkg/needed]], and
[[many_packages|dev/pkg/spf-2.0]] need to be updated to the latest package
format.

Most source packages are maintained in [Git repositories][git-pkg].  To request
a repository for your package, [contact][pehjota-contact] the system
administrator.

[spf-2.0]: http://specs.proteanos.com/spf-2.0/
[git-pkg]: http://git.proteanos.com/pkg/
[pehjota-contact]: http://www.pehjota.net/contact.html


Software Development
====================

<img src="/media/tango-64/preferences-system.png" alt="software development"
class="icon-64-top-left">

The ProteanOS community maintains and uses a number of distribution development
and infrastructure tools.

The [[ProteanOS_Archive_Manager|dev/pro-archman]] could use more testers and
maintainers.

Patches are welcome for other tools as well, including [opkbuild][],
[[opkhelper|dev/opkhelper]], the [ProteanOS Development Kit][prokit], and
[Text::MarkdownBook][markdownbook].

A simple build daemon infrastructure has been
[[designed|dev/todo/buildd-infra]].

[opkbuild]: http://git.proteanos.com/opkbuild/opkbuild.git/
[prokit]: http://git.proteanos.com/prokit/prokit.git/
[markdownbook]: http://git.proteanos.com/markdownbook/markdownbook.git/


Technical Documentation
=======================

<img src="/media/tango-64/text-editor.png" alt="technical documentation"
class="icon-64-top-left">

Specifications
--------------

In development is the [Source Package Format 2.0 specification][spf-2.0].

[[Instructions|dev/specs]] to clone and build the specifications are available.

Policies
--------

To be written is a Packaging Policy.


<h1 style="clear: left;">Release Series</h1>

ProteanOS is released in [[series|dev/releases]].  Development is currently
focused on [[release_series_1|dev/releases/1]].


<h1 style="clear: left;">Architecture Ports</h1>

ProteanOS is designed to portable to many different
[[hardware_architectures|dev/ports/hardware]],
[[system_kernels|dev/ports/kernels]], and
[[C/C++_libraries|dev/ports/libraries]].  A number of [[ports|dev/ports/list]]
are planned.