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+Help Wanted
+===========
+
+We can always use more help with the Mesa project. Here are some
+specific ideas and areas where help would be appreciated:
+
+#. **Driver testing.** Most developers are working on newer hardware
+   on the Mesa main branch, but older hardware often doesn't have
+   automated testing or as much testing coverage.  Testing your older
+   hardware for regressions and bisecting and fixing problems in those
+   drivers is useful for other Linux users.  You can also help by
+   doing manual performance (or regression) testing work on performance
+   changes being made in Mesa's open merge requests.
+#. **Driver debugging.** There are plenty of open bugs in the `bug
+   database <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues>`__.
+#. **Remove aliasing warnings.** Enable GCC's
+   ``-Wstrict-aliasing=2 -fstrict-aliasing`` arguments, and track down
+   aliasing issues in the code.
+#. **Contribute more tests to**
+   `Piglit <https://piglit.freedesktop.org/>`__ that aren't covered by
+   VK-GL-CTS.
+
+You can find some further To-do lists here:
+
+**Common To-Do lists:**
+
+-  `features.txt <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/docs/features.txt>`__
+   - Status of OpenGL/OpenGLES and Vulkan features in Mesa across drivers.
+
+If you want to do something new in Mesa, first join the Mesa developer's
+mailing list. Then post a message to propose what you want to do, just
+to make sure there's no issues.
+
+Anyone is welcome to contribute code to the Mesa project. By doing so,
+it's assumed that you agree to the code's licensing terms.
+
+Finally, be sure to review the instructions for :doc:`submitting
+patches <submittingpatches>`.