# Contributing
We invite everyone to contribute by submitting patches, pull requests,
bug reports, and code reviews.
## Issue reporting and code contributions
* Before you report an issue, or wish to add functionality, please try
and check to see if there are existing issues or pull requests. We
do not want you wasting your time duplicating somebody else's work.
* For substantial changes it is also advisable to contact us before
you start work to discuss your ideas.
* You should be prepared to wait until your pull request or patch has
been discussed and authorized prior to its inclusion. We might also
ask for you to adapt your changes to make them suitable for
inclusion.
* To help increase the chance of your pull request being accepted:
- Run the tests.
- Update the documentation, tests, examples, guides, and whatever
else is affected by your contribution.
- Use appropriate code formatting for your code.
* Try to follow *the Campsite Rule:* leave the codebase in better
condition than you found it. Please clean up any messes that you
find, and don't leave behind new messes for the next contributor.
## How do I make a contribution?
Never made an open source contribution before? Wondering how
contributions work in our project? Please follow the guidelines at
(
https://github.com/gap-system/gap/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
