= Development
:description: Development progress, general development practices
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Unikie
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-or-later OR CC-BY-SA-4.0

Spectrum is free software, currently under active development.


== Developer Setup

* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/about/[b4]
* https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/introduction.html[Nix package manager]
* https://docs.asciidoctor.org/[AsciiDoc] for writing the documentation

TIP: For information on writing guidelines,
see xref:../contributing/writing_documentation.adoc[Documentation Style Guide].

If you want to update Spectrum without reinstalling, see how to
xref:updates.adoc[Enable updates].

== Mailing Lists

The Spectrum project runs several
xref:../contributing/communication.adoc[mailing lists] on
which you can ask your questions or help other people with the questions they
have.  All the Spectrum developers as well as many long time Linux and Spectrum users are on the lists.

For real-time feedback, use
xref:../contributing/communication.adoc[IRC/Matrix channel].
