Contributing

Besu welcomes contributions in many forms: code, documentation, raising issues, and helping others in chat.

Start here

Everything you need to decide whether and how to contribute lives in the Contributing guide (CONTRIBUTING.md) in the main repository. It covers:

• Setting up your GitHub and Discord accounts
• Choosing something to work on (good first issues and help wanted)
• The fork → branch → commit → pull request workflow
• Reporting bugs and suggesting enhancements
• Pull request and code review expectations
• The Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO), copyright, and licensing

If you just have a quick question, check the Besu documentation or ask in the Besu Discord. Please don't open an issue to ask a question.

Contributing to specific areas

Once you've read the contributing guide, these wiki pages go deeper on specific areas:

• Working with DCO: signing off commits and fixing DCO check failures
• Besu CLI Style Guide
• Testing
• Logging
• Building from source