We’ve added a new Contributors category to the GhostBSD forums! This is the space where anyone interested in helping grow and improve GhostBSD can come together to collaborate and share ideas. Whether you're into coding, writing, testing, or just lending a hand, there’s a place for you here.
What's Inside?
The Contributors category is divided into smaller subcategories to keep things organized and make it easy to jump into the areas that interest you most. Here’s a quick look at what’s available:
- Moderators: For Admins and Mods to manage the forum and community.
- Documentation: Help write or improve GhostBSD guides and manuals.
- Release: Share ideas or tasks related to releasing new versions of GhostBSD.
- Translation: Help make GhostBSD available in different languages.
- Ports & Packages: Work on or discuss adding and updating software for GhostBSD.
- Tools Development: Contribute to tools like Update Station and others.
- Website: Help maintain and improve the GhostBSD website.
- Infrastructure: A space for technical discussions about servers, hosting, and backend systems (limited to certain groups).
- Security: Share thoughts and insights about improving GhostBSD's security.
Who Can Participate?
- Non-forum members can see posts and polls in the main Contributors category.
- Forum members can dive into subcategory discussions.
- Some areas, like Moderators and Infrastructure, are restricted to specific groups for privacy reasons.
Why Use the Forum?
This new category will be the primary platform for contributors to collaborate and communicate. While the Dev Telegram group is still great for quick chats, the forum is easier to organize and track important discussions—especially since it matches the formatting style of our Doc Hub, which we can easily reuse in our documentation.
A Few Quick Notes:
- This isn’t the place for reporting issues! Please use our GitHub issues tracker for that: GitHub Issues.
- If you’re not an official contributor, your posts will need approval for now. If everything runs smoothly, we’ll loosen this restriction.
We’re starting small, but we may add more subcategories over time. If you have suggestions for areas we’ve missed, feel free to let us know!
Let’s make this the heart of GhostBSD collaboration. I am excited to see what we can build together!
