This Web page is aimed at software developers who wish
to participate in gawk development.
You should be comfortable working with traditional Unix-style command-line tools, and with the C language and standard library facilities.
You should also have some prior experience using distributed source code control systems, such as the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) or Subversion (SVN). Experience with a more modern system such as Mercurial or Git will be even more helpful.
The Web page focuses on participation in the project (that is,
how to work most effectively if you wish to contribute to it) and
also describes how to make use of the Git
distributed source code management system for gawk development.