DocsGPT/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Welcome to DocsGPT Contributing Guidelines

Thank you for choosing this project to contribute to. We are all very grateful!

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# We accept different types of contributions

📣 Discussions - where you can start a new topic or answer some questions

🐞 Issues - This is how we track tasks, sometimes it is bugs that need fixing, and sometimes it is new features

🛠️ Pull requests - This is how you can suggest changes to our repository, to work on existing issues or add new features

📚 Wiki - where we have our documentation


## 🐞 Issues and Pull requests

We value contributions to our issues in the form of discussion or suggestions. We recommend that you check out existing issues and our [roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/arc53/projects/2).

If you want to contribute by writing code, there are a few things that you should know before doing it:

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

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

- The current frontend is being migrated from `/application` to `/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):
- Check out our issues and contribute to `/application` or `/scripts` (ignore old `ingest_rst.py` `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 PR, ensure it is queryable after ingesting some test data.

### Testing

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

### Workflow:
Create a fork, make changes on your forked repository, and submit changes as a pull request.

## Questions/collaboration
Please join our [Discord](https://discord.gg/n5BX8dh8rU). Don't hesitate; we are very friendly and welcoming to new contributors.

# Thank you so much for considering contributing to DocsGPT!🙏