silverstripe-framework/docs/en/05_Contributing/index.md

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title: Contributing
summary: Any open source product is only as good as the community behind it. You can participate by sharing  code, ideas, or simply helping others. No matter what your skill level is, every contribution counts.
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## House rules for everybody contributing to SilverStripe
 * Read over the SilverStripe Community [Code of Conduct](code_of_conduct) 
 * Ask questions on the [forum](http://silverstripe.org/community/forums)
 * Make sure you know how to [raise good bug reports](issues_and_bugs)
 * Everybody can contribute to SilverStripe! If you do, ensure you can [submit solid pull requests](code)

See our [high level overview on silverstripe.org](http://www.silverstripe.org/community/contributing-to-silverstripe/)
on how you can help out. Or, for more detailed guidance, read one of the following pages:

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Review and tidy up contributing documentation. 2014-09-26 09:49:44 +02:00			`title: Contributing`
NEW: Update docs to be compliant with Gatsby site (#9314) * First cut * Temporarily disable composer.json for netlify build * POC * New recursive directory query, various refinements * Fix flexbox * new styled components plugin * Apply frontmatter delimiters * Mobile styles, animation * Search * Redesign, clean up * Nuke the cache, try again * fix file casing * Remove production env file * ID headers * Move app to new repo * Add frontmatter universally * Hide children changelogs * Add how to title * New callout tags * Revert inline code block change * Replace note callouts * Fix icons * Repalce images * Fix icon * Fix image links * Use proper SQL icon 2019-11-18 05:58:33 +01:00			`summary: Any open source product is only as good as the community behind it. You can participate by sharing code, ideas, or simply helping others. No matter what your skill level is, every contribution counts.`
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Broke up contributing docs into 4 sections and unified code contribtion guide. The guidelines for contributing code were scattered across a section of contributing.md and collaboration-on-git.md. I've updated this to have separate contributing/code.md page with all the content in a single cohesive page. We also have contributing/documentation.md, contributing/issues.md and contributing/translation.md. 2012-10-09 01:32:22 +02:00
Review and tidy up contributing documentation. 2014-09-26 09:49:44 +02:00			`## House rules for everybody contributing to SilverStripe`
DOCS Reference to ensure contributors read over the Code of conduct 2015-02-15 22:28:52 +01:00			`* Read over the SilverStripe Community [Code of Conduct](code_of_conduct)`
DOCS Replaced references to core mailinglist with forum 2018-12-18 22:20:46 +01:00			`* Ask questions on the [forum](http://silverstripe.org/community/forums)`
Review and tidy up contributing documentation. 2014-09-26 09:49:44 +02:00			`* Make sure you know how to [raise good bug reports](issues_and_bugs)`
			`* Everybody can contribute to SilverStripe! If you do, ensure you can [submit solid pull requests](code)`
Broke up contributing docs into 4 sections and unified code contribtion guide. The guidelines for contributing code were scattered across a section of contributing.md and collaboration-on-git.md. I've updated this to have separate contributing/code.md page with all the content in a single cohesive page. We also have contributing/documentation.md, contributing/issues.md and contributing/translation.md. 2012-10-09 01:32:22 +02:00
Review and tidy up contributing documentation. 2014-09-26 09:49:44 +02:00			`See our [high level overview on silverstripe.org](http://www.silverstripe.org/community/contributing-to-silverstripe/)`
			`on how you can help out. Or, for more detailed guidance, read one of the following pages:`
Broke up contributing docs into 4 sections and unified code contribtion guide. The guidelines for contributing code were scattered across a section of contributing.md and collaboration-on-git.md. I've updated this to have separate contributing/code.md page with all the content in a single cohesive page. We also have contributing/documentation.md, contributing/issues.md and contributing/translation.md. 2012-10-09 01:32:22 +02:00
Review and tidy up contributing documentation. 2014-09-26 09:49:44 +02:00			`[CHILDREN]`
Broke up contributing docs into 4 sections and unified code contribtion guide. The guidelines for contributing code were scattered across a section of contributing.md and collaboration-on-git.md. I've updated this to have separate contributing/code.md page with all the content in a single cohesive page. We also have contributing/documentation.md, contributing/issues.md and contributing/translation.md. 2012-10-09 01:32:22 +02:00