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Join 4,000+ contributors in GitLab’s open source community and co-create the platform millions of people use to deliver software faster.
Learn how GitLab's customers are working directly with product and engineering teams to propose and contribute new features. Improve the software you use every day.
Open source contributions build experience working with developers and product teams. Highlight your contributions and GitLab achievements on social media or in your resume.
With 4,000+ contributors, GitLab’s open source community can help you with pair programming sessions, community events and chat support. Come say hello in the GitLab Community Discord!
Onboard as a first-time contributor, then level up to achieve badges, GitLab swag, and organizational awards. Contribute your way into the GitLab Hall of Fame!
Tutorial: Make a GitLab Contribution
Learn how to make code changes and create a merge request. Onboard with GitLab's open source community and choose your development environment. Select between in-browser remote options or configure the GitLab Development Kit (GDK) for full local development.
Climb the Hackathon leaderboard alongside the GitLab community to contribute, learn, and win exciting prizes!
Join our weekly community office hours sessions to meet community members, learn a new area of GitLab or work on a contribution.
Check out livestreams and recordings of pairing sessions and other events on the Community Coders for GitLab YouTube channel.
Meet the CI Components team and learn how to create your own components in the CI/CD Catalog.
How to find help contributing to GitLab:
Contribution Guidelines
Add features, fix bugs, help with reviews, and more. You don't need to know how to write code to contribute.
From fixing typos to rewriting pages, anyone can contribute to the GitLab documentation.
Join the 1,500+ community members who translate GitLab into more than 35 languages.
Help make GitLab easy to use for a diverse group of people. Propose features, fix design bugs, and enhance code.
Create default templates, repositories, and CI/CD pipeline definitions. Help others around the world get started more quickly.
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