Contribute#
Thank you for your interest in helping to improve Matplotlib!
This project is a community effort, and everyone is welcome to contribute. Everyone within the community is expected to abide by our code of conduct.
There are various ways to contribute, such as optimizing and refactoring code, detailing unclear documentation and writing new examples, helping the community, reporting and fixing bugs, requesting and implementing new features...
GitHub issue tracker#
The issue tracker serves as the centralized location for making feature requests, reporting bugs, identifying major projects to work on, and discussing priorities.
We have preloaded the issue creation page with markdown forms requesting the information we need to triage issues and we welcome you to add any additional information or context that may be necessary for resolving the issue:
Submit a bug report
Thank you for your help in keeping bug reports targeted and descriptive.
Request a new feature
Thank you for your help in keeping feature requests well defined and tightly scoped.
Since Matplotlib is an open source project with limited resources, we encourage users to also participate in fixing bugs and implementing new features.
Contributing guide#
We welcome you to get more involved with the Matplotlib project! If you are new to contributing, we recommend that you first read our contributing guide:
Contribute code
Write documentation
Triage issues
Build community
Development workflow#
If you are contributing code or documentation, please follow our guide for setting up and managing a development environment and workflow:
Policies and guidelines#
These policies and guidelines help us maintain consistency in the various types of maintenance work. If you are writing code or documentation, following these policies helps maintainers more easily review your work. If you are helping triage, community manage, or release manage, these guidelines describe how our current process works.
Documentation
Triage And Review