Difference between revisions of "How to start contributing"

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Learn the API.
- Lua API Documentation
- Intro modding on Wiki.
- With these, you can make mods for Luanti. Interesting mods - or fixes to the default mods - may eventually get merged upstream.

Learn about the engine.
- These pages explain how the engine works, how it structures data and how it is released.

Issues.
- This is where you can report bugs or suggest improvements. Be aware that we have a lot of feature requests already.

Rough overview of merge chances per code area

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 == Mod contribution (in Lua) ==
-* [https://github.com/minetest/minetest/blob/master/doc/lua_api.txt '''Learn the API'''].
+* '''Learn the API'''.
-** With this, you can make mods for Minetest. Interesting mods (or fixes to the default mods) may eventually get merged upstream.
+** [[Lua API Documentation]]
+** [http://dev.minetest.net/Intro Intro modding on Wiki].
+** With these, you can make mods for Luanti. Interesting mods - or fixes to the default mods - may eventually get merged upstream.
 * [https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2434 '''Find ideas'''].
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 == Core development (in C++) ==
-* '''[[Engine structure|Learn]]-[[Core Architecture|about]]-[[Basic data structures|the]]-[[Releasing Minetest|engine]]'''.
+* '''[[Engine|Learn about the engine]]'''.
-** These pages (each word links to a different page) explain how the engine works, how it structures data and how it is released.
+** These pages explain how the engine works, how it structures data and how it is released.
 * [https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues?state=open '''Issues'''].
 ** This is where you can report bugs or suggest improvements. Be aware that we have a lot of feature requests already.
 [[Category:Rules and Guidelines]]
+[[File:Merge Chance Complexity Diagram.png|thumbnail|Rough overview of merge chances per code area]]