# Getting Involved with the Clang Project

Once you have checked out and built clang and played around with it, you might be wondering what you can do to make it better and contribute to its development. Alternatively, maybe you just want to follow the development of the project to see it progress.

## Follow what's going on

Clang is a subproject of the LLVM Project, but has its own mailing lists because the communities have people with different interests. The two clang lists are:

- cfe-commits - This list is for patch submission/discussion.
- cfe-dev - This list is for everything else clang related (questions and answers, bug reports, etc).

If you are interested in clang only, these two lists should be all you need. If you are interested in the LLVM optimizer and code generator, please consider signing up for llvmdev and llvm-commits as well.

The best way to talk with other developers on the project is through the cfe-dev mailing list. The clang mailing list is a very friendly place and we welcome newcomers. In addition to the cfe-dev list, a significant amount of design discussion takes place on the cfe-commits mailing list. All of these lists have archives, so you can browse through previous discussions or follow the list development on the web if you prefer.

If you're looking for something to work on, check out our Open Projects page or go look through the Bugzilla bug database.