.. _faq-contributing: ============ Contributing ============ We ❤️ contributions! Please follow the guide `here `_ and reach out to the `Community Dev `_ channel on Matrix with any questions. Do I need to be a professional developer or have coding experience to contribute? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Absolutely not! Contributions can be as simple as finding a typo in our docs, making a suggestion on GitHub, creating educational or promotional content, and the list goes on! Everyone that wants to contribute can do so in some unique way. Please don't hesitate to ***CONTACT LINK*** us for ideas if you're not sure where to begin. The guide says that a Makefile is optional, why is this? -------------------------------------------------------- The ``Makefile`` simplifies the development process by putting all your build steps into one place so that you can simply use the ``make`` to build with. A ``Makefile`` is not required however, and you may instead choose to use something like ``nix``, ``bash``, ``perl``, ``python``, or ``ruby`` for your build orchestration. Expound the following into FAQs move to other dev-faq section if necessary: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Release notes need to be in quotations? As it is a string? (they aren’t by default) – this is a yaml thing and SOMETIMES they are required and SOMETIMES NOT - Alerts in LND example are not wrapped in quotes, same with CUPS release notes – yaml thing - Ports in manifest – can leave as default (80), as it is a docker container?? - Sure - Type definitions – is this just for dependencies? Can a blurb be added here for extra clarity? - Config spec – Admin pass? - Makefile - Not required, but simplifies dev process