There are many ways you can contribute to Tails. No effort is too small and whatever you bring to this community will be appreciated. So read on to find out how you can make a difference in Tails.

Share your experience

Every user can help others or provide developers with useful information.

• Report bugs
• Test experimental ISO images
• Provide input to developers
• Help other Tails users

Donate

Donating speeds up the development of Tails.

• Make a donation

Contribute your language skills

Writer

Good writers can make Tails accessible to more people.

• Improve documentation
• Write press releases

Translator

Translators can allow more people around the world to use Tails.

• Improve Tails in your own language

Speaker

Speakers can advocate Tails to all kinds of public.

• Talk at events

Contribute your computer skills

Developer or maintainer

Software people with very diverse skills can improve Tails.

• Work on the source code
• Improve Tails by working on Debian

System administrator

System administrators can contribute to the infrastructure behind Tails.

• Run a HTTP mirror
• Improve Tails infrastructure

Designer

Designers can make Tails easier to use and more appealing.

• Improve the website
• Design graphics
• Improve the Tails user interface

Reference documents

• Design documents
• Blueprints
• Merge policy

Tools for contributors

• Source code: Git repositories
• Redmine bug tracker
  • Roadmap
  • Easy tasks for new contributors
  • Tasks can be filtered by type of work (see links in the sidebar)
• Building a Tails image
  • Build the website
  • Customize Tails
• Debian package builder, to automatically build our custom packages
• APT repository, to store our custom Debian packages
• Glossary for contributors

Release cycle

• Release schedule
• Release process
  • Manual test suite

Relationship with upstream

• Relationship with upstream
• Improve Tails by working on Debian

Collective process

• Calendar of releases, meetings, working sessions, etc.
• Meetings, and minutes from past meetings
• Marking a task as easy
• Document progress
• Roles
  • Front desk
  • Release manager
  • Ticket gardener

Talk with 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.