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
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 Contributing to MantisBT for more details.