The project is entirely developed and maintained by volunteers. You can help:

Report Problems

If you experience problems with the site or client software, you can report them in the appropriate issue tracker, or discuss them in the Forum, on Matrix or IRC (#fdroid on OFTC).

Submit Applications

If you see an application missing from the repository (after reading the inclusion policy), please feel free to submit it via the dedicated Requests For Packaging issue tracker.

If you have the technical skills required, you can also put together the relevant metadata and submit that via the F-Droid Data repository, which will drastically speed up the inclusion of the application.

The same applies for helping to build newer versions of applications.

Further information can be found in the documentation, or by asking on Matrix or IRC (#fdroid on OFTC).

Translate

The client application is available in many languages. Should yours not be among those, or be in need of updates or improvement, please create an account and use the translation system to make your changes.

Start with the overview of Translation and Localization. There’s also a dedicated forum section for translation related discussions.

Develop

There are four main git repositories hosted at GitLab:

• Android client application,
• server tools for running a repository and building or installing applications locally
• associated metadata files for applications in the main F-Droid repository
• website and documentation

The easiest way to contribute to development is to make clones of these projects and submit merge requests. If you are making large changes, it would be good to discuss them on IRC or in the forum first, to ensure they fit with the direction of the project, and do not clash with or duplicate work already in development.

For working with the server and data projects, it’s a good idea to read the manual.

Maintain Infrastructure

F-Droid provides multiple servers (builders, web portal, download areas and more) which need regular maintenance, Ansible-based deployment and hardware management. Further information can be found by asking on Matrix, IRC (#fdroid-dev on OFTC) or team@f-droid.org.