Contribution guidelines

Contribung to Etherpad

First of all any contribution to our project is very much welcome and if you need help just ask. Unfortunately over the course of this project there were multiple occasions of people trying to get GitHub credability by being assigned to an Etherpad issue while not delivering any value for months.

That is why we decided to come up with the following guideline:

• You won't be assigned to an issue until you show a significant progress. An assignement is meant for documentation purposes if there are questions regarding the pull request in the future.
• Please don't ask to be assigned to a task. A maintainer will do so if you have progressed enough.
• Don't hesitate to ask for help if you can't get any further but please try to come up with your own solution. If a maintainer needs to manually check where the issue is located and practically deliver the solution he can fix it himself.