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## Contributing
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Welcome to The Lounge, it's great to have you here! We thank you in advance for
your contributions.
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### I want to report a bug
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- Look at the [open and closed
issues](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/issues?q=is%3Aissue) to see if
this was not already discussed before. If you can't see any, feel free to
[open a new issue ](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/issues/new ).
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### I want to contribute to the code
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- Make sure to discuss your ideas with the community in an
[issue ](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/issues ) or on the IRC channel.
- Take a look at the open issues labeled as [`help wanted` ](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3Abug+label%3A%22help+wanted%22 )
if you want to help without having a specific idea in mind.
- Make sure that your PRs do not contain unnecessary commits or merge commits.
[Squash commits ](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History )
whenever possible.
- [Rebase ](https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Branching-Rebasing ) (instead of
merge) outdated PRs on the `master` branch.
- Give extra care to your commit messages. Use the [imperative present
tense](https://git-scm.com/book/ch5-2.html#Commit-Guidelines) and [follow Tim
Pope's guidelines](http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html).
- Each PR will be reviewed by at least two different project maintainers. You
can read more about this in the [maintainers'
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corner](https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/wiki/Maintainers'-corner).
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- Please document any relevant changes in the documentation that can be found
[in its own repository ](https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge.github.io ).
