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== Step 2: Researching Projects ==
Once you've got at least 3 projects on your list, it's time to start researching them. For each of them, you need key information, including:
The simplest way to find the project's main website is to google it. A well maintained project will have links from the website to their source code repository, issue tracker, mailing lists and IRC channel. Sometimes this information will all be bundled together in a “developer guide”. Larger projects may have multiple mailing lists for different people (developers, users, translators, etc) and for different parts of the project.
Some code hosting services, such as Github, provide issue trackers as well. You can usually find a link to the issue tracker in the code repository and vice versa. Popular services include Github, Google Code, Bitbucket, SourceForge and Gitorious. Popular issue tracker services include Bugzilla, Github, and Google Code.
Project Name
Source Code
Mailing List
IRC Channel
Issue Tracker
== Evaluating Projects ==
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