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This blog entry is directed to someone with skills and interest in NetBeans APIs- module and platform development and Python.

I have been working (in my spare time) on the Python support for some time now. Recently, the EA2 release was out and though the nbpython@netbeans.org  alias is not, what you would call high-volume, but there is pretty good interest and satisfaction among the users. This  has spurred and inspired me to keep working on the project.

I would like to bring to your attention and hopefully guide you to some very low hanging fruits (IMO) that you could grab and help us with:

• Online Help: Online Help constitutes the help sets that is shipped with the IDE. I wrote the current stuff long time back. They really need some updation, since a lot of enhancement has been done since. You will need some knowledge of JavaHelp to start working with them. But, its easy. You should take a look at the python.help module in the NetBeans sources. 
• Documentation: Besides the IDE Helpsets, we also need some 'web-based' documents which would target documenting a specific Python development scenario in NetBeans. Some examples: this, this and this. Some of the docs that we would like to see are summarized here.
  
• Issues or Bugs: There are a *lot* of Python specific bugs.Not all of them require much or very less coding exercise. Some would possibly be just verified and closed. You could take a look there. Some are Enhancement requests which would be a good exercise if implemented

That's some of the very easy ways in which you could help the Python support project. Of course, you could also scratch your own itch.

Talk to us at nbpython-dev@netbeans.org  and nbpython@netbeans.org