= Welcome to the Midnight Commander Development Center =

== Translates of this page to other languages ==
[wiki:ru/WikiStart Русский]

== Introduction ==

GNU Midnight Commander is a file manager for the shell, which is licensed under GPL and is therefore Free Software.

As Midnight Commander is a text mode application. It can be used locally and/or remotely, on the console or under the X Window System.

This is the new site for the Midnight Commander, due to some restructurements in the development team the repository was 
moved from savannah into this git repository.

[McContributors Contributors]; [McDevelopers development team(active developers)]

== Documentation ==
Currently there is not much documentation about the features of Midnight Commander and how you can best work with it.

As not everyone is familiar with mc, we'll provide some basic Documentation right here. Please come back soon. :)

Draft of documentation placed [wiki:doc here]

== Mailing list for developers (or interested observers :]) ==

=== mc-devel(at)gnome(dot)org ===
Mailing list for development-related discussions
 * Click here to [http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel Subscribe]
 * Click here to [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/ read the Archives]

=== mc-commits(at)googlegroups(dot)com ===
Mailling list only for applyed commits into master/mc-4.6 branches (use it as RSS :) )
 * Click here to [http://groups.google.com/group/mc-commits/subscribe Subscribe]
 * Click here to [http://groups.google.com/group/mc-commits read the Archives]

=== mc-bugs(at)googlegroups(dot)com ===
Mailing list only for tickets and comments (use it as RSS :) )
 * Click here to [http://groups.google.com/group/mc-bugs/subscribe Subscribe]
 * Click here to [http://groups.google.com/group/mc-bugs read the Archives]

== Mailing list for users: ==
=== mc(at)gnome(dot)org ===
 * Click here to [http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc Subscribe]
 * Click here to [http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/ read the Archives]
== Other resources ==
=== mc-dev(@)conference.jabber.org ===
This is your English-speak jabber room

== Downloading ==
A list of the lastest releases can be found [http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads here]. If you are interested in developing please have also a look on our git:
In order to get a checkout of the git use this:
 * git clone git://midnight-commander.org/git/mc.git
 * git clone http://git.midnight-commander.org/mc.git (For those who are behind a firewall)

We also have an autosyncing git mirror at [[http://repo.or.cz/w/midnight-commander.git/ repo.or.cz]]
As it uses gitweb at Web UI - it can provide information unavailable via trac browse plugin. 
 * git clone git://repo.or.cz/midnight-commander.git
 * git clone http://repo.or.cz/r/midnight-commander.git

== Contributing ==
You are interested in mc and would like to improve it? Cool! Feel free to post your patches to the tickets and review patches there. If you do this on a regular basis we'll ask you if you maybe want to become a dev. 
However when you work with the ticket system please have a look on our WorkingGuideLines, so that your work is noticed by us. 

If you are unfamiliar with git, you can also have a short view on our GitGuideLines where the workflow with git is described quite practical.