# Django 1.8.18.dev20170123152445 documentation

# 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:

- Report bugs 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.
- Submit patches for new and/or fixed behavior. If you’re looking for an easy way to start contributing to Django read the Writing your first patch for Django tutorial and have a look at the easy pickings tickets. The Patch review checklist will also be helpful.
- Improve the documentation or write unit tests.
- Triage tickets and review patches created by other users.

Really, ANYONE can do something to help make Django better and greater!

Browse the following sections to find out how:

- Advice for new contributors
  - First steps
  - Guidelines
  - FAQ
- Reporting bugs and requesting features
  - Reporting bugs
  - Reporting user interface bugs and features
  - Requesting features
  - How we make decisions
- Triaging tickets
  - Triage workflow
  - Triage stages
  - Other triage attributes
  - Closing Tickets
  - How can I help with triaging?
- Writing code
  - Coding style
  - Unit tests
  - Submitting patches
  - Working with Git and GitHub
- Writing documentation
  - Getting the raw documentation
  - Getting started with Sphinx
  - Writing style
  - Commonly used terms
  - Django-specific terminology
  - Guidelines for reStructuredText files
  - Django-specific markup
  - Documenting new features
  - An example
  - Improving the documentation
  - Spelling check
  - Translating documentation
  - `django-admin` man page
- Localizing Django
  - Translations
  - Formats
  - Documentation
- Committing code
  - Handling pull requests
  - Committing guidelines
  - Reverting commits