CONTRIBUTING.md

We are happy that you want to contribute to our project! To get you started, we have collected a few things you should know in order to add helpful issues, well-formatted pull requests and well-structured code from the beginning:

• Please use our issue and pull request templates. Github will automatically offer them to you. Our base-branch is staging.
• To ensure well-formatted code, we use pre-commit hooks in git. Since they cannot be checked into the git history, please run pre-commit install in the repo folder after installing the requirements from requirements.txt
• Our project is currently translated based on German and translated into English, please use python3 manage.py makemessages --no-location to generate missing translations and fill them out in backend/locale/en/django.po. If you are not fluent enough in one of them, state so and we will help you in the pull request.
• If you want to propose an idea or draft with code that is not ready to merge yet, please use the Draft option Github provides. Draft PRs can also be helpful to you, since we can give early feedback while knowing that it is still a work-in-progress.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to the maintaining developers @maltezacharias, @bjrne, @Baschdl, @kevihiin, @feeds, and @josauder.