HowCanYouHelp.md

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You can help in several ways. Contributions can be as small as a bugfix or a documentation improvement, or as large as a new protocol implementation.

As a student:

• Seek INET-related project and thesis topics
• Report and/or fix problems you encounter in the code and the documentation
• Participate in the forums and help others

As a researcher:

• When you review/validate models to be used for your project (advised!), share your findings
• Contribute your improvements and the models you write

As a professor:

• Advertise INET-related project and thesis topics, and encourage your students to share the resulting code or findings
• Use INET in teaching, and share the materials you use

As an open-source enthusiast:

If you think INET is cool and you are actively looking for ways to help the project, here are some tips:

• Any item on the Contribution Ideas page
• There are several murky corners in INET in need for a little work to be invested (refactoring, features, testing, example simulations)
• You can help us with coordinating the community and publicity tasks
• Investigate and comment on open issues in the bug tracker (many reports are obsolete or unreproducible)
• Help us reduce the list of issues found by Coverity or Valgrind
• ...