Some Tails planned features require initial tests, thought and/or discussion before actual implementation work can start. You may want to contribute to this effort.

Do not panic! Some of this preparation work can be done by people who lack the technical skills needed to actually implement the desired feature.

Tasks that are currently stalled by the need for input have the the Research, Discuss, or Test Type of work on our TODO list. You probably want to start looking at the ones that are also in the list of easy tasks first so that you can gain confidence... and we can smoothly learn to work together.

You may also want to test experimental ISO images.

Talk to us

If you want to talk in public with other Tails developers and users:

• you can subscribe or write to the tails-dev@boum.org mailing-list; any message sent to this list is stored in a public archive, so beware of what your email content and headers reveal about yourself: location, IP address, etc.;
• you can join our #tails and #tails-dev chatrooms; note: only a few Tails core developers hang out there, so email is preferred for anything that might be of interest for the larger Tails development community;
• for translation-related matters, you can subscribe or write to the tails-l10n@boum.org mailing-list; any message sent to this list is stored in a public archive, so beware of what your email content and headers reveal about yourself: location, IP address, etc.

For matters that need to be hidden from the public eyes, email the private development mailing list: tails@boum.org; to achieve end-to-end encryption, encrypt such email with our OpenPGP key.