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The very first thing you should do is start talking with members of the community. It helps to know how your feature is going to fit, what is involved in your feature and whether it will eventually be accepted and merged into the central repository. It's helpful to start with reporting bugsReport Bugs, submitting patches or requesting featuresSubmit Patches or Request Features documentation. If you're a programmer and want to jump head first into coding please review coding standards.
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