Organization

How to contribute
Areas and teams
- How to join a team / become a maintainer
- 2D
- 3D
- Animation
- Asset pipeline
- Audio
- Core
- Demos
- Documentation
- Editor
  - Debugger
  - Script Editor
- GUI
- Input
- Navigation
- Networking
- Physics
- Platforms
  - Android
  - Apple
  - Buildsystem
  - Web
  - Windows
  - Linux / BSD
- Quality Assurance
  - Tests
  - Bugsquad / Issue triage
- Rendering
  - Shaders
  - VFX / Tech Art / Particles
- Scripting
- Server Infrastructure
- Technical Leadership Committee (TLC)
- Translation / i18n
- Usability
- Website
- XR
Resources

Providing feedback

How to write a good issue report
Testing and reporting issues
- Testing development versions
Proposing and discussing ideas
- How are proposals accepted?
- Evaluating proposals
Bisecting regressions

Pull requests

Pull request workflow
- When will a pull request get reviewed?
Pull request rules and guidelines
How to create pull requests
Reviewing pull requests
Testing pull requests
- Downloading a compiled build
  - If you have a GitHub account
  - If you don't have a GitHub account
- Compiling a pull request branch from source
  - Downloading a zipped pull request branch
  - Checking out a pull request branch with git

Contributing to the engine

Introduction to engine contributions
Engine contribution guidelines
Contributing unit tests
- Unit test guidelines

Contributing documentation

Documentation overview
Documentation guidelines
Contributing to the class reference
Contributing to the manual
- Writing the manual
- Building the manual with Sphinx
  - Dealing with errors
  - Hints for performance
    - RAM usage
    - Specifying a list of files
Contributing to the contributing docs

Other

Helping out teams (using triage projects)
- How to use triage projects
- Triage guidelines
Bugsquad and triage
Participating in triage sprints
- Sprint steps
Contributing translations
Contributing to the website
- Content guidelines
Contributing demo projects
- Demo submission criteria
  - Submission criteria for new demos
    - Visual considerations
    - If you are submitting a copy of a demo translated to C#
Contributing benchmarks
- Adding new benchmarks
Contributing to godot-cpp
- Feature guidelines
Release management
- Merge guidelines
- Maintenance release process
  - Changes suitable for maintenance releases
  - Cherry-picking process
    - Triage process for cherry-pickable PRs
    - Release manager process to cherry-pick

Contributing to Godot

Godot Engine contributing documentation in English
- Index
- Edit on GitHub
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