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## 1 OpenOCD Developer Resources

If you are interested in improving the state of OpenOCD's debugging and testing support, new contributions will be welcome. Motivated developers can produce new target, flash or interface drivers, improve the documentation, as well as more conventional bug fixes and enhancements.

The resources in this chapter are available for developers wishing to explore or expand the OpenOCD source code.

### 1.1 OpenOCD GIT Repository

During the 0.3.x release cycle, OpenOCD switched from Subversion to a GIT repository hosted at SourceForge. The repository URL is:

git://openocd.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openocd/openocd

You may prefer to use a mirror and the HTTP protocol:

http://repo.or.cz/r/openocd.git

With standard GIT tools, use `git clone` to initialize a local repository, and `git pull` to update it. There are also gitweb pages letting you browse the repository with a web browser, or download arbitrary snapshots without needing a GIT client:

http://openocd.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=openocd/openocd

http://repo.or.cz/w/openocd.git

The `README` file contains the instructions for building the project from the repository or a snapshot.

Developers that want to contribute patches to the OpenOCD system are strongly encouraged to work against mainline. Patches created against older versions may require additional work from their submitter in order to be updated for newer releases.

### 1.2 Doxygen Developer Manual

During the 0.2.x release cycle, the OpenOCD project began providing a Doxygen reference manual. This document contains more technical information about the software internals, development processes, and similar documentation:

http://openocd.berlios.de/doc/doxygen/index.html

This document is a work-in-progress, but contributions would be welcome to fill in the gaps. All of the source files are provided in-tree, listed in the Doxyfile configuration in the top of the source tree.

### 1.3 OpenOCD Developer Mailing List

The OpenOCD Developer Mailing List provides the primary means of communication between developers:

https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development

Discuss and submit patches to this list. The `PATCHES.txt` file contains basic information about how to prepare patches.

### 1.4 OpenOCD Bug Database

During the 0.4.x release cycle the OpenOCD project team began using Trac for its bug database:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/openocd