====================== Contributing to Django ====================== Django is a community that lives on its volunteers. As it keeps growing, we always need more people to help others. As soon as you learn Django, you can contribute in many ways: * Join the |django-users| mailing list and answer questions. This mailing list has a huge audience, and we really want to maintain a friendly and helpful atmosphere. If you're new to the Django community, you should read the `posting guidelines`_. * Join the `#django IRC channel`_ on Freenode and answer questions. By explaining Django to other users, you're going to learn a lot about the framework yourself. * Blog about Django. We syndicate all the Django blogs we know about on the `community page`_; if you'd like to see your blog on that page you can `register it here`_. * Contribute to open-source Django projects, write some documentation, or release your own code as an open-source pluggable application. The ecosystem of pluggable applications is a big strength of Django, help us build it! If you think working *with* Django is fun, wait until you start working *on* it. We're passionate about helping Django users make the jump to contributing members of the community, so there are several ways you can help Django's development: * :doc:`Report bugs <bugs-and-features>` in our `ticket tracker`_. * Join the |django-developers| mailing list and share your ideas for how to improve Django. We're always open to suggestions. * :doc:`Submit patches <writing-code/submitting-patches>` for new and/or fixed behavior. If you're looking for an easy way to start contributing to Django have a look at the `easy pickings`_ tickets. * :doc:`Improve the documentation <writing-documentation>` or :doc:`write unit tests <writing-code/unit-tests>`. * :doc:`Triage tickets and review patches <triaging-tickets>` created by other users. Really, **ANYONE** can do something to help make Django better and greater! Browse the following sections to find out how: .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 new-contributors bugs-and-features triaging-tickets writing-code/index writing-documentation localizing committing-code .. _posting guidelines: https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/UsingTheMailingList .. _#django IRC channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/django .. _community page: https://www.djangoproject.com/community/ .. _register it here: https://www.djangoproject.com/community/add/blogs/ .. _ticket tracker: https://code.djangoproject.com/newticket .. _easy pickings: https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=!closed&easy=1
