Miro is built by a community of people doing a variety of activities: using Miro, bug triage, testing, translating, documenting and development.

First thing to do is read through this page to see whether we have needs that match your skills and inclinations.

Second thing to do is to reach out and say hi. We hang out on IRC on #miro-hackers on freenode.net.

Additionally, we have a develop mailing list. Details of the mailing list are at http://mailman.pculture.org/listinfo/develop .

If you want to reach out to an individual rather than a public forum, feel free to email me directly.

Miro console, do you have any of it ?

Translating strings in the Miro user interface (menus, labels, buttons, ...) is done by people like you in the community. If you are fluent in English and another language, take some time to help translate Miro into another language.

Translations are done on Launchpad at https://translations.launchpad.net/democracy .

Miro is complex software and we develop it for Windows, OSX and GNU/Linux. However, there are different versions of each of those platforms and a variety of different GNU/Linux distributions. PCF doesn't have the resources to properly test Miro on all possible platforms with different video card and hardware configurations.

Your help with testing will make it more likely that Miro will run on your computer as well as computers of other users that are like yours.

Our QA person maintains a testing blog at http://pculture.org/devblogs/mirotesting/ . There are tips for good testing at http://pculture.org/devblogs/mirotesting/2007/10/11/what-makes-a-good-tester/ and the New Testers Guide at http://pculture.org/devblogs/mirotesting/2008/10/13/new-testers-guide/ .

PCF builds packages for Miro releases for the two most recent versions of Ubuntu. We can't package Miro on other platforms that we don't have in-house expertise on. Because of that, we rely on other people to package Miro for their particular distributions.

If you're interested in packaging Miro, see the PackagingResources page in our wiki https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/wiki/PackagingResources

Additionally, we hang out on IRC on freenode.net at #miro-hackers . We're happy to try to help where we can.

In git master there are a set of helper scripts in tv/linux/helperscripts/ that install required packages for building and running Miro on a specific version and distribution of GNU/Linux.

We'd love to get scripts for getting Miro requirements for Gentoo, OpenSUSE, Debian, Arch, Pardus and any other distributions you're interested in writing scripts for! See existing scripts as a guide.

If you're interested in helping out, let us know on #miro-hackers on freenode.net.

We mark bugs as "bite-sized" when we think they're good opportunities for someone to jump in and contribute. Often they're simple, but sometimes they're complex. Most of the bugs have a comment with guidance.

http://bugzilla.pculture.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Miro&content=bitesized

http://bugzilla.pculture.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11972

I think the issue comes from the Adobe Flash player running as a plugin for XULRunner which is embedded in Miro with gtkmozembed. Somewhere in that stack is something that causes Flash applets to completely lock up Miro. I haven't been motivated to do serious work on it--there have always been other more important things to work on.