Join the Development

Pencil is an open-source project and promote the uses of open formats/standards. Contributions to the development always welcome. If you are an open-source contributor you can consider joining the Pencil development as:

Developers

The central source code repository has been created and its details can be found below. Approved contributors can commit changes or patches directly to the repository. Primary requirements for developers are skills in Javascript, XUL and SVG.

Pencil Project Home at Google Code:

http://code.google.com/p/evoluspencil/

Pencil Source Code Repository:

http://code.google.com/p/evoluspencil/source/browse

Volunteer Testers

Pencil, as other software, has bugs and we need you as a volunteer to try new features and report issues back to the development team to improve the quality.

Bugs and Issues can be posted to:

http://code.google.com/p/evoluspencil/issues/list

Stencils Authors

Pencil is built on top of the the concept of stencils which act as the templates for all shapes you can create in a document. Pencil is shipped with a very limited set of out-of-the box stencils. More stencils can be added by creating the definition an install it into Pencil. The Pencil project will create a central directory for stencil authors to share stencil that they made.

For the time being, the following documents are available for developing stencils. More stuffs will be added to this section in the upcoming days

For any question regarding Pencil development, feel free to drop me an email. Thank you.