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  • User guide
  • Sysadmin guide
  • Maintainer’s guide
  • API guide
  • Extending guide
  • Theming guide
  • Contributing guide
    • Reporting issues
    • Translating CKAN
    • Testing CKAN
    • Writing commit messages
    • Making a pull request
    • Reviewing and merging a pull request
    • Writing documentation
    • Projects for beginner CKAN developers
    • CKAN code architecture
    • CSS coding standards
    • HTML coding standards
    • JavaScript coding standards
    • Python coding standards
    • String internationalization
    • Testing coding standards
    • Frontend development guidelines
    • Database migrations
    • Upgrading CKAN’s dependencies
    • Doing a CKAN release
    • Maintenance tools
  • Changelog
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Contributing guide

CKAN is free open source software and contributions are welcome, whether they’re bug reports, source code, documentation or translations. The following sections will walk you through our processes for making different kinds of contributions to CKAN:

  • Reporting issues
  • Translating CKAN
  • Testing CKAN
  • Writing commit messages
  • Making a pull request
  • Reviewing and merging a pull request
  • Writing documentation
  • Projects for beginner CKAN developers
  • CKAN code architecture
  • CSS coding standards
  • HTML coding standards
  • JavaScript coding standards
  • Python coding standards
  • String internationalization
  • Testing coding standards
  • Frontend development guidelines
  • Database migrations
  • Upgrading CKAN’s dependencies
  • Doing a CKAN release
  • Maintenance tools
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