# How to Contribute

Contributions of all kinds are welcome!

Please visit our [Community Forums](https://community.bitwarden.com/) for general community discussion and the development roadmap.

Here is how you can get involved:

- **Request a new feature:** Go to the [Feature Requests category](https://community.bitwarden.com/c/feature-requests/) of the Community Forums. Please search existing feature requests before making a new one
- **Write code for a new feature:** Make a new post in the [Github Contributions category](https://community.bitwarden.com/c/github-contributions/) of the Community Forums. Include a description of your proposed contribution, screeshots, and links to any relevant feature requests. This helps get feedback from the community and Bitwarden team members before you start writing code
- **Report a bug or submit a bugfix:** Use Github issues and pull requests
- **Write documentation:** Submit a pull request to the [Bitwarden help repository](https://github.com/bitwarden/help)
- **Help other users:** Go to the [Ask the Bitwarden Community category](https://community.bitwarden.com/c/support/) on the Community Forums
- **Translate:** See the localization (l10n) section below

## Contributor Agreement

Please sign the [Contributor Agreement](https://cla-assistant.io/bitwarden/desktop) if you intend on contributing to any Github repository. Pull requests cannot be accepted and merged unless the author has signed the Contributor Agreement.

## Pull Request Guidelines

- use `npm run lint` and fix any linting suggestions before submitting a pull request
- commit any pull requests against the `master` branch
- include a link to your Community Forums post

# Localization (l10n)

[![Crowdin](https://d322cqt584bo4o.cloudfront.net/bitwarden-desktop/localized.svg)](https://crowdin.com/project/bitwarden-desktop)

We use a translation tool called [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com) to help manage our localization efforts across many different languages.

If you are interested in helping translate the Bitwarden desktop app into another language (or make a translation correction), please register an account at Crowdin and join our project here: https://crowdin.com/project/bitwarden-desktop

If the language that you are interested in translating is not already listed, create a new account on Crowdin, join the project, and contact the project owner (https://crowdin.com/profile/dwbit).

You can read Crowdin's getting started guide for translators here: https://support.crowdin.com/crowdin-intro/