DocsGPT/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Welcome to DocsGPT Contributing Guidelines

Thank you for choosing to contribute to DocsGPT! We are all very grateful! 

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# We accept different types of contributions

📣 **Discussions** - Engage in conversations, start new topics, or help answer questions.

🐞 **Issues** - This is where we keep track of tasks. It could be bugs,fixes or suggestions for new features.

🛠️ **Pull requests** - Suggest changes to our repository, either by working on existing issues or adding new features.

📚 **Wiki** - This is where our documentation resides.


## 🐞 Issues and Pull requests

We value contributions in the form of discussions or suggestions. We recommend taking a look at existing issues and our [roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/arc53/projects/2).

Before creating issues, please check out how the latest version of our app looks and works by launching it via [Quickstart](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT#quickstart) the version on our live demo is slightly modified with login. Your issues should relate to the version that you can launch via [Quickstart](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT#quickstart).

If you're interested in contributing code, here are some important things to know:

We have a frontend built with React (Vite) and a backend in Python.


### If you are looking to contribute to frontend (⚛️React, Vite):

- The current frontend is being migrated from [`/application`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/tree/main/application) to [`/frontend`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/tree/main/frontend) with a new design, so please contribute to the new one.
- Check out this [milestone](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/milestone/1) and its issues.
- The Figma design can be found [here](https://www.figma.com/file/OXLtrl1EAy885to6S69554/DocsGPT?node-id=0%3A1&t=hjWVuxRg9yi5YkJ9-1).

Please try to follow the guidelines.

### If you are looking to contribute to Backend (🐍 Python):

- Review our issues and contribute to [`/application`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/tree/main/application) or [`/scripts`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/tree/main/scripts) (please disregard old [`ingest_rst.py`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/blob/main/scripts/old/ingest_rst.py) [`ingest_rst_sphinx.py`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/blob/main/scripts/old/ingest_rst_sphinx.py) files; they will be deprecated soon).
- All new code should be covered with unit tests ([pytest](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest)). Please find tests under [`/tests`](https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT/tree/main/tests) folder.
- Before submitting your Pull Request, ensure it can be queried after ingesting some test data.
  
### Testing

To run unit tests from the root of the repository, execute:
```
python -m pytest
```

### Workflow 📈 :
- Fork repository
- Make the required changes on your forked version 
- Commit those changes and submit those as a pull request so that it reflects on thr main repository.

## Questions/collaboration
Feel free to join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/n5BX8dh8rU). We're very friendly and welcoming to new contributors, so don't hesitate to reach out.
# Thank you so much for considering contributing to DocsGPT!🙏