<commit_before># Improving Concourse

So, you've come here hoping to make Concourse better? Rad. There are lots of
ways to do this, from just hanging around [Discord](https://discord.gg/MeRxXKW) or [the forums](https://discuss.concourse-ci.org/),
to contributing to discussions in GitHub issues and, maybe at some point,
contributing code.

This document will point you in the right direction for whichever ways you
choose to contribute.


# Growing the Community

Contributing to open-source projects can be done in more ways than just
writing code. Often the most valuable thing for a project's growth is to have
constant and healthy *discussions*.

There are a few ways you can help out here:

* If you run into a bug or have a feature request, look for an issue for it, or
  create it if it doesn't already exist. If one already existed, you can either
  add GitHub reactions to it or make a comment providing additional info, but
  please don't leave comments that just say "+1" or "this is affecting me too
  and it's the end of the world".

  GitHub reactions and comments are [literally used to rank the
  issues](https://github.com/vito/customs/blob/master/src/GitHub.elm#L111-L126)
  and will get us to pay more attention to them.

* Just about every large change we're thinking of making will start its life as
  a GitHub issue with the
  [`discuss`](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+user%3Aconcourse+label%3A%22discuss%22)
  label. These are meant to present a direction we're thinking of going and to
  collect feedback from the community on whether it'd help them.

  The same rules apply for GitHub reactions and comments; they help us decide
  which things are affecting more people.

* Helping other folks out in [Slack](http://slack.concourse-ci.org) and [Stack
  Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/concourse) really helps<commit_msg>Forgot another reference to Discord<commit_after># Improving Concourse

So, you've come here hoping to make Concourse better? Rad. There are lots of
ways to do this, from just hanging around [Discord](https://discord.gg/MeRxXKW) or [the forums](https://discuss.concourse-ci.org/),
to contributing to discussions in GitHub issues and, maybe at some point,
contributing code.

This document will point you in the right direction for whichever ways you
choose to contribute.


# Growing the Community

Contributing to open-source projects can be done in more ways than just
writing code. Often the most valuable thing for a project's growth is to have
constant and healthy *discussions*.

There are a few ways you can help out here:

* If you run into a bug or have a feature request, look for an issue for it, or
  create it if it doesn't already exist. If one already existed, you can either
  add GitHub reactions to it or make a comment providing additional info, but
  please don't leave comments that just say "+1" or "this is affecting me too
  and it's the end of the world".

  GitHub reactions and comments are [literally used to rank the
  issues](https://github.com/vito/customs/blob/master/src/GitHub.elm#L111-L126)
  and will get us to pay more attention to them.

* Just about every large change we're thinking of making will start its life as
  a GitHub issue with the
  [`discuss`](https://github.com/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+user%3Aconcourse+label%3A%22discuss%22)
  label. These are meant to present a direction we're thinking of going and to
  collect feedback from the community on whether it'd help them.

  The same rules apply for GitHub reactions and comments; they help us decide
  which things are affecting more people.

* Helping other folks out in [Discord](https://discord.gg/MeRxXKW) and [Stack
  Overflow](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/concourse) really helps
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