====== Active Users Role ======

The community and the user base is what differentiates a successful open source project from a non-successful one.  Users are able to contribute to Mantis via the following means:

  * Register on http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs and report bugs or feature requests.  Also contribute your opinion on issues that are already reported by other users.  Diversity of needs and opinions guarantees that we develop a product that is generic enough and simple enough for all our users.
  * Install non-stable release, test them and provide feedback.  The recommendation is to do such testing on a backup copy of your data.  Unless you are comfortable PHP and Mantis code base, it is generally recommended to keep your production releases on stable Mantis releases.
  * Whenever your learn something that wasn't readily available in the documention, contribute it back.  You can contribute such information to the forums, the wiki, or the manual as notes.
  * Visit website often, read the documentation and the wiki, review [[requirements]], provide feedback.
  * Visit our sponsors and affiliates, get to know what they do, do business with them.
  * Register your oragnization on the [[http://www.mantisbugtracker.com/directory.php|Mantis Users Directory]] by contacting vboctor -at- users -dot- sourceforge -dot- net.
  * Talk to your organization to donate to or sponsor Mantis.
  * Recommend Mantis to others.

See [[mantisbt:contributing]] for more details.