.. _faq-contributing: FAQ: Contributing code ====================== How can I get started contributing code to Django? -------------------------------------------------- Thanks for asking! We've written an entire document devoted to this question. It's titled :ref:`Contributing to Django `. I submitted a bug fix in the ticket system several weeks ago. Why are you ignoring my patch? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't worry: We're not ignoring you! It's important to understand there is a difference between "a ticket is being ignored" and "a ticket has not been attended to yet." Django's ticket system contains hundreds of open tickets, of various degrees of impact on end-user functionality, and Django's developers have to review and prioritize. On top of that: the people who work on Django are all volunteers. As a result, the amount of time that we have to work on the framework is limited and will vary from week to week depending on our spare time. If we're busy, we may not be able to spend as much time on Django as we might want. Besides, if your feature request stands no chance of inclusion in Django, we won't ignore it -- we'll just close the ticket. So if your ticket is still open, it doesn't mean we're ignoring you; it just means we haven't had time to look at it yet.