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FAQ: Contributing code
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How can I get started contributing code to Django?
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Thanks for asking! We've written an entire document devoted to this question.
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It's titled :doc:`Contributing to Django </internals/contributing/index>`.
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I submitted a bug fix in the ticket system several weeks ago. Why are you ignoring my patch?
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Don't worry: We're not ignoring you!
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It's important to understand there is a difference between "a ticket is being
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ignored" and "a ticket has not been attended to yet." Django's ticket system
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contains hundreds of open tickets, of various degrees of impact on end-user
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functionality, and Django's developers have to review and prioritize.
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On top of that: the people who work on Django are all volunteers. As a result,
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the amount of time that we have to work on the framework is limited and will
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vary from week to week depending on our spare time. If we're busy, we may not
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be able to spend as much time on Django as we might want.
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The best way to make sure tickets do not get hung up on the way to checkin is
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to make it dead easy, even for someone who may not be intimately familiar with
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that area of the code, to understand the problem and verify the fix:
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* Are there clear instructions on how to reproduce the bug? If this
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touches a dependency (such as Pillow), a contrib module, or a specific
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database, are those instructions clear enough even for someone not
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familiar with it?
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* If there are several patches attached to the ticket, is it clear what
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each one does, which ones can be ignored and which matter?
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* Does the patch include a unit test? If not, is there a very clear
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explanation why not? A test expresses succinctly what the problem is,
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and shows that the patch actually fixes it.
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If your patch stands no chance of inclusion in Django, we won't ignore it --
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we'll just close the ticket. So if your ticket is still open, it doesn't mean
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we're ignoring you; it just means we haven't had time to look at it yet.
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When and how might I remind the team of a patch I care about?
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A polite, well-timed message to the mailing list is one way to get attention.
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To determine the right time, you need to keep an eye on the schedule. If you
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post your message right before a release deadline, you're not likely to get the
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sort of attention you require.
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Gentle IRC reminders can also work -- again, strategically timed if possible.
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During a bug sprint would be a very good time, for example.
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Another way to get traction is to pull several related tickets together. When
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the someone sits down to review a bug in an area they haven't touched for
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a while, it can take a few minutes to remember all the fine details of how
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that area of code works. If you collect several minor bug fixes together into
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a similarly themed group, you make an attractive target, as the cost of coming
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up to speed on an area of code can be spread over multiple tickets.
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Please refrain from emailing anyone personally or repeatedly raising the same
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issue over and over. This sort of behavior will not gain you any additional
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attention -- certainly not the attention that you need in order to get your
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issue addressed.
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But I've reminded you several times and you keep ignoring my patch!
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Seriously - we're not ignoring you. If your patch stands no chance of
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inclusion in Django, we'll close the ticket. For all the other tickets, we
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need to prioritize our efforts, which means that some tickets will be
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addressed before others.
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One of the criteria that is used to prioritize bug fixes is the number of
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people that will likely be affected by a given bug. Bugs that have the
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potential to affect many people will generally get priority over those that
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are edge cases.
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Another reason that bugs might be ignored for while is if the bug is a symptom
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of a larger problem. While we can spend time writing, testing and applying
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lots of little patches, sometimes the right solution is to rebuild. If a
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rebuild or refactor of a particular component has been proposed or is
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underway, you may find that bugs affecting that component will not get as much
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attention. Again, this is a matter of prioritizing scarce resources. By
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concentrating on the rebuild, we can close all the little bugs at once, and
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hopefully prevent other little bugs from appearing in the future.
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Whatever the reason, please keep in mind that while you may hit a particular
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bug regularly, it doesn't necessarily follow that every single Django user
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will hit the same bug. Different users use Django in different ways, stressing
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different parts of the code under different conditions. When we evaluate the
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relative priorities, we are generally trying to consider the needs of the
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entire community, instead of prioritizing the impact on one particular user.
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This doesn't mean that we think your problem is unimportant -- just that in the
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limited time we have available, we will always err on the side of making 10
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people happy rather than making a single person happy.
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