Thank you for your interest in contributing to Anchor! All contributions are welcome no matter how big or small. This includes (but is not limited to) filing issues, adding documentation, fixing bugs, creating examples, and implementing features.
If you're looking to get started, check out good first issues or issues where help is wanted. For simple documentation changes or typos, feel free to just open a pull request.
If you're considering larger changes or self motivated features, please file an issue and engage with the maintainers in Discord.
If you'd like to contribute, please claim an issue by commenting, forking, and opening a pull request, even if empty. This allows the maintainers to track who is working on what issue as to not overlap work.
Please follow these guidelines:
Before coding:
- choose a branch name that describes the issue you're working on
- enable commit signing
While coding:
- Submit a draft PR asap
- Only change code directly relevant to your PR. Sometimes you might find some code that could really need some refactoring. However, if it's not relevant to your PR, do not touch it. File an issue instead. This allows the reviewer to focus on a single problem at a time.
- If you write comments, do not exceed 80 chars per line. This allows contributors who work with multiple open windows to still read the comments without horizontally scrolling.
- Write adversarial tests. For example, if you're adding a new account type, do not only write tests where the instruction succeeds. Also write tests that test whether the instruction fails, if a check inside the new type is violated.
After coding:
- If you've moved code around, build the docs with
cargo doc --openand adjust broken links - Adjust the cli templates if necessary
- If you made a change to anchor's periphery (avm or cli), make a PR to the
anchor-bookrepo if necessary - If you've added a new folder to the
testsdirectory, add it to the CI.