For Developers

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Audacity aims to be a simple to use but powerful audio editor.

• We have design guidelines to make the user interface consistent and more discoverable.
• We have coding standards to improve consistency in how we code.
• We have a vibrant community beyond the developers who support users, get feedback, test and document Audacity.

This is how we get from ideas to new releases of Audacity Feature Requests   -->   Proposals   -->   Projects   -->   Releases

If you're a programmer, check out the developer guide and subscribe to the audacity-devel mailing list If you are already compiling Audacity, great. If not tell us where our instructions for doing so suck. We always need more developers! Rather than just post a pull request to our GitHub repo, join our developers' mailing list and introduce yourself! You'll have a far better chance of your proposed changes being adapted and accepted. You don't have to have a pull request already. We're very happy to have lurkers on the list. If you are keen to interact, you are welcome to: tell us about any new or improved features you are working on. tell us if you've hit a bug and are working on it. if you'd like to help with code reviews of GitHub pull requests, tell us.

Topics for Developers

Developer Documentation

• The Feature Requests Pipeline
  • Proposals
  • Feature Requests
• Audacity Architecture
• Guide for New Audacity Developers
  • Theming HowTo
  • Nyquist plug-ins HowTo
  • Scripting
• Making Audacity Translatable
• Making Audacity Doxygenable
• Doxygenated class list

Development Activity

• Next Release that we are working on
  • Wording changes required in the app
• Active Development Projects
  • Macros discussion page

Building

• Building On Windows
• Building On Linux
• Building On Mac
• Building On Cygwin
• Building The Manual
• Our code on GitHub

Quality Assurance

• Coding Standards
• Code Review
• Using Bugzilla
• Bug Lists
• Bug Counts
• Design Topics
• Wording and punctuation guidelines
  • Capitalization Guidelines

Builds for alpha testing not listed now

...Everything for Developers

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