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h1. Tips for Contributors
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This project is intended to help codes and other project contributors get oriented about our project tools and practices.






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h2. The Bufferbloat Sites






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The Bufferbloat sites are hosted on Redmine, a project-hosting engine that combines an issue tracker with a wiki and other useful features.






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Redmine's wiki is not the best wiki in the world, but it's tolerable and the project group developing it is helpful and constantly improving it.






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It also has good access control, and the ability to delegate administration and even project creation, so no single person has to be the center of the universe.






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h2. Eating our own dogfood






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We believe in [[Dogfood_Principle|earing our own dogfood]].  The bufferbloat servers are tuned and administered using the same bufferbloat-mitigation techniques we develop for others to use.