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Bluefish Development

Bluefish is an open source project, released under the GNU GPL licence. Bluefish development is mostly coordinated on the bluefish-dev mailinglist (see below). On the list, both users, developers and testers can give their opinion on new features, bug fixes and GUI improvements.

Contact

Please use the mailing lists for general questions about the program or the development. You can contact olivier (at) bluefish.openoffice.nl for questions regarding the bluefish project management.

Reporting Bugs

For bugreports please go to bugzilla.gnome.org. You can enter new bugs here. Using bug-buddy instead of the web-interface is possible too.

Mailing lists

• Development list - Send an email containing "subscribe bluefish-dev" in the body to bluefish-dev-request@lists.ems.ru to join development, translations or testing.
• User list - Send an email containing "subscribe bluefish-users" in the body to bluefish-users-request@lists.ems.ru to join the user community.

The lists subscriptions can also be managed using the list web-interface.

Our mailing lists can also be read as newsgroups at gmane bluefish-dev and gmane bluefish-users. Old list archives can be found here.

Help needed

Help is welcome on various parts:

• We are working on more plugins, which requires some C, gtk or python knowledge
• For requested features, check Bug tracking system, or the Project roadmap in the wiki
• Writing the manual in our wiki
• Translations - several languages are out of date, see the WiKi
• Testing
• Creating packages - we currently lack a Mandrake and a Suse maintainer!
• Better native Windows support
• Better native Mac support

Code in Subversion

Bluefish uses Sourceforge to manage the code. You can browse the repository on-line.

To build the latest Bluefish version from SVN:

svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/bluefish/code/trunk/bluefish cd bluefish ./autogen.sh ./configure make su -c "make install"

For more information see the wiki page Compiling Bluefish from source code.

Debian/Ubuntu packages

Debian/Ubuntu packages can be created from the subversion repository. These are NOT official packages and should only be distributed as "bluefish-unstable". Only use the script and the created packages if you follow the development. For "normal" users, official packages are available too.

svn co svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/bluefish/code/trunk/bluefish cd bluefish ./make-deb.sh

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Other projects from Bluefish developers

Olivier Sessink is also known for:

• Directory Assistant - an LDAP addressbook frontend
• Jailkit - a set of utilities to limit user accounts
• Scannedonly - a scalable high performance Samba anti virus module

Daniel Leidert is also known for:

• lots of Debian packages, and Ubuntu packages