# How to contribute
We are really glad you are reading this because we need volunteer developers to
help with this project.
If you have not already, come find us on [![Join the chat at
https://gitter.im/pgRouting/pgrouting](https://badges.gitter.im/Join%20Chat.svg)](https://gitter.im/pgRouting/pgrouting?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge&utm_content=badge)
or contact us via [mailing
list](http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/pgrouting-dev). We want you to
work on things you're excited about. Drop a message and if someone can assist
you, will contact you back ASAP.
Here are some important resources:
* [pgRouting for Developers](https://docs.pgrouting.org/doxygen) has the
internals C/C++ code information,
* [Wish list on the wiki](https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/wiki/GSoC-Ideas)
is the foot view of what we think the community needs.
* [Additional wish
lst](https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22Functionality+Request%22).
(TODO to move the information to the wiki wish list)
* Participate in the
[discussions](https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/discussions).
* Participate in fixing
[Documentation](https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ADocumentation).
* Find a bug? [Let us know](https://github.com/pgRouting/pgrouting/issues).
## Contribution agreement
Any kind of contribution will automatically fall to the following Licences:
* Code contribution: GNU General Public License v2.0 or later,
* Directly by making an explicit pull request.
* Indirectly by posting code on issues/wiki/gitter/mailng lists
* Documentation contribution:
* Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
## Submitting changes
Write a clear log message for your commits. One-line messages are fine for small
changes, but bigger changes should have more information.
Fill in the commit message template.
## Coding conventions
Start reading our code and you'll get the hang of it. We optimize for
readability.
This is open source software. Consider the people who will read your code, and
make it look nice for them.
* We indent using four spaces (soft tabs)
* We use cpplint for linting C/C++ code.
Thanks,
pgRouting team