First off, thank you for being part of the freesewing community, and for taking the time to contribute! ❤️
The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to FreeSewing. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
When you engage with us, or when you engage with others, please remember the FreeSewing community standards.
As a contributor, you are also expected to uphold the FreeSewing Code of Conduct.
Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected].
Please don't file an issue to ask a question. You'll get faster results by contacting us on Discord. You can get to our Discord server via https://discord.freesewing.org/.
Please keep in mind that our community members live all over the world. So what's daytime for you might be the middle of the night for others. Please be patient. Sooner or later, somebody will answer.
Most of FreeSewing's source code lives in our monorepo.
There are some exceptions:
svgtopdf: The repository holding the source code for our on-demand tiler backendtile: The repository holding the source code for our command-line tiler
We publish a lot of JavaScript packages on NPM. You can find the full list in the packages folder of our monorepo.
This file is mostly geared towards code contributors, but there's plenty of other ways you can contribute.
As it happens, we keep a list of suggestions at: https://freesewing.dev/howtos/ways-to-contribute
Unsure where to begin contributing to FreeSewing? You can start by looking through the issues labeled good first issue.
Don't be afraid to take on an issue. If you get stuck, we'll help you out.