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How To Contribute
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Every open source project lives from the generous help by contributors that sacrifice their time and ``python-telegram-bot`` is no different.
To make participation as pleasant as possible, this project adheres to the `Code of Conduct`_ by the Python Software Foundation.
Here are a few guidelines to get you started:
- Add yourself to the AUTHORS.rst_ file in an alphabetical fashion.
Every contribution is valuable and shall be credited.
- If your change is noteworthy, add an entry to the CHANGES_.
- No contribution is too small; please submit as many fixes for typos and grammar bloopers as you can!
- Dont break backward compatibility.
- *Always* add tests and docs for your code.
This is a hard rule; patches with missing tests or documentation wont be merged.
If a feature is not tested or documented, it doesnt exist.
- Obey `PEP 8`_ and `PEP 257`_.
- Follow `Google Python Style Guide`_ and `Google Python Style Docstrings`_.
- Write `good commit messages`_.
.. note::
If you have something great but arent sure whether it adheres -- or even can adhere -- to the rules above: **please submit a pull request anyway**!
In the best case, we can mold it into something, in the worst case the pull request gets politely closed.
Theres absolutely nothing to fear.
Thank you for considering to contribute to ``python-telegram-bot``!
If you have any question or concerns, feel free to reach out to me.
.. _`PEP 8`: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
.. _`PEP 257`: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0257/
.. _`good commit messages`: http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html
.. _`Code of Conduct`: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
.. _`Google Python Style Guide`: https://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html
.. _`Google Python Style Docstrings`: http://sphinx-doc.org/latest/ext/example_google.html
.. _CHANGES: https://github.com/leandrotoledo/python-telegram-bot/blob/master/CHANGES
.. _AUTHORS.rst: https://github.com/leandrotoledo/python-telegram-bot/blob/master/AUTHORS.rst