# Hacking

Everyone can [hack][] naxalnet. See below for how to hack.

## Questions, answers and hate speech

Join the XMPP channel <xmpp:naxalnet@chat.disroot.org> to talk about
anything related to this program or about mesh networks in general.
Redirect your hate messages to `/dev/null`

## Reporting issues and suggesting ideas

To report a bug or suggest an idea, create a new issue at
<https://git.disroot.org/pranav/naxalnet/issues>

While reporting a bug, you need to add the debug messages too. Run
`journalctl -fu naxalnet` on a terminal emulator (this could take some
time). Now on another one, type `sudo systemctl start naxalnet.service` or
whatever caused the error. Now copy the error messages and paste it in the
issue body along with the description.

## Improving documentation

The README and HACKING.md needs to be more beginner friendly.
See #20.

## Contribute code

To push to this repo, you need your username to be in the
contributors list. Add your username to issue #8 to add you
as a contributor. Before each commit, update the CHANGELOG.md
and `__version__` in `naxalnet/__init__.py`

## Packaging

Currently this program is only packaged for Arch Linux.
naxalnet needs packages in GNU+Linux+systemd
distributions such as Debian, Fedora, openSUSE,
and nixos. If you know/like to package it in your distro,
post a message to issue #6.

[hack]: https://catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack.html