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Welcome Welcome
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We invite you to join our team! Everyone is welcome to contribute code We invite you to join the Flutter team, which is made up of volunteers and sponsored folk alike!
via pull requests, to file issues on GitHub, to help people asking for There are many ways to contribute, including writing code, filing issues on GitHub, helping people
help on our mailing lists, our chat channels, or on Stack Overflow, to on our mailing lists, our chat channels, or on Stack Overflow, helping to triage, reproduce, or
help triage, reproduce, or fix bugs that people have filed, to add to our fix bugs that people have filed, adding to our documentation,
documentation, or to help out in any other way. doing outreach about Flutter, or helping out in any other way.
We grant commit access (which includes full rights to the issue We grant commit access (which includes full rights to the issue
database, such as being able to edit labels) to people who have gained database, such as being able to edit labels) to people who have gained
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Helping out in the issue database Helping out in the issue database
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Triage is the process of going through bugs and determining if they are valid, finding out Triage is the process of going through bug reports and determining if they are valid, finding out
how to reproduce them, catching duplicate reports, and generally making our issues list how to reproduce them, catching duplicate reports, and generally making our issues list
useful for our engineers. useful for our engineers.
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Quality Assurance Quality Assurance
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One of the most useful tasks, closely related to triage, is finding and filing bugs. Testing One of the most useful tasks, closely related to triage, is finding and filing bug reports. Testing
beta releases, looking for regressions, creating test cases, adding to our test suites, and beta releases, looking for regressions, creating test cases, adding to our test suites, and
other work along these lines can really drive the quality of the product up. Creating tests other work along these lines can really drive the quality of the product up. Creating tests
that increase our test coverage, writing tests for issues others have filed, all these tasks that increase our test coverage, writing tests for issues others have filed, all these tasks
are really valuable contributions to open source projects. are really valuable contributions to open source projects.
If this interests you, you can jump in and submit bugs without needing anyone's permission! If this interests you, you can jump in and submit bug reports without needing anyone's permission!
The #hackers-tests channel on our [Discord server](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Chat) The #qa channel on our [Discord server](https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Chat)
is a good place to talk about what you're doing. If you want to contribute test cases, you is a good place to talk about what you're doing. We're especially eager for QA testing when
can also submit PRs, see the next section for how to set up your development environment. we announce a beta release. See https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Quality-Assurance for
more details.
If you want to contribute test cases, you can also submit PRs. See the next section
for how to set up your development environment, or ask in #hackers-test on Discord.
> As a personal side note, this is exactly the kind of work that first got me into open > As a personal side note, this is exactly the kind of work that first got me into open
> source. I was a Quality Assurance volunteer on the Mozilla project, writing test cases for > source. I was a Quality Assurance volunteer on the Mozilla project, writing test cases for
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