Introduction
These "Help" documents have been composed to answer questions you might
have related to this site. Whether you are a guest or a registered user,
you can peruse information like this help document about how to use and
participate in this site. The table of contents
delineates the various topics that these help documents address. If you
have immediate questions, general or specific, you might also find the
Site FAQ useful.
You can also find out more about the development projects hosted on
this site by viewing the complete listing and visiting individual project
home pages. If you want to get more involved, you must be a registered
user. Registering with this site opens up a further range of possibilities
available to you here ...
This same dynamic that governs individual project administration implicitly
determines how this site functions. These help documents are meant to help
project owners craft and maintain appealing and successful projects and
to aid users in working within the community associated with any project.
If you are viewing this site but not logged in, you are considered a
guest user. You are most welcome to investigate the site and view project
information. The projects you can view are public; there are also other
private projects hosted on this site. As a guest user, you can:
If you are a registered user, the natural place to start (and it is
also the default) is your Start Page, which
presents you with, among other things, a generous category list of currently
hosted projects and a navigation bar on the left listing useful and important
links. Each of these items is available for browsing. In fact, before you
have even joined a project, you can:
More on learning about and joining projects
In general, this site aims to provide developers with the tools and resources
needed in creating and maintaining projects. Once created, a project is
worked on by registered users who join as members to form a kind of community
associated with the project. Project owners must craft projects that not
only will be approved by the site administrators, but will also be appealing
enough to attract users who register with this site to become active participants.
Before you register: what
guest users can do
Should you wish to register to gain further access to site resources, join
a project, or perhaps even start your own project, you can use the Register
link in the left navigation bar at any time to create a user account. You
will also find links to the registration screen on various project pages.
Before you join a project:
what registered users can do
These items are touched on throughout the Help pages, as they are common
to all users alike. Each item provides some insight either into the structure
of this site into particular projects and their communities of developers.
Investigating project categories, for instance, can give you a fair idea
of the project at hand, as can reading the project news pages.
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