# \[compiler-team\] making it easer to contribute to rustc
**URL:** https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/compiler-team-making-it-easer-to-contribute-to-rustc/5345
**Category:** compiler
**Created:** [June 1, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/compiler-team-making-it-easer-to-contribute-to-rustc/5345 "2017-06-01T21:01:28Z")
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### Author:  [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2017, 9:01pm UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/compiler-team-making-it-easer-to-contribute-to-rustc/5345/1 "2017-06-01T21:01:28Z")
In our “proactive” meeting today, the compiler team focused on what we can do to improve the onboarding experience for new compiler developers. [This etherpad contains notes from the discussion](https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/rust-compiler-meeting-2017-06-01), but the immediate action items were as follows:
- Assemble cookbook of handy `./x.py` commands (mgattozzi)
- how to run the rustc you build?
- where is the output directory
- also, if you prefer, how to use `rustup toolchain link` so you can get `rustc +stage1` and so forth to work
- how to use `RUST_LOG` and the role of `debug!`
- Assemble lists of high-level docs that need to be written (nmatsakis)
- each crate, for example
- assign them to various people
- also the overall structure and the setup of the lifetimes
- Once crates are documented:
- move on to document the modules
- maybe then we can worry about individual types etc
- Host rustdocs on forge somehow (mgattozzi)
- [https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42359](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42359)
- Reorganize forge to better guide people, and advertise it more broadly (not assigned!)
More suggestions and feedback would be very welcome!
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### Author:  [@nikomatsakis](https://internals.rust-lang.org/u/nikomatsakis)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/compiler-team-making-it-easer-to-contribute-to-rustc/5345/2 "2019-03-25T08:28:37Z")
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