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title: Contributing
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# Contributing to DemocracyOS

If you have a question about DemocracyOS (not a bug report) please post it to our [mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/democracyos-app) or on [Gitter](https://gitter.im/DemocracyOS/app).


## Reporting bugs / Requesting features

For practical reasons we only accept issues that are bug reports or feature requests. Make sure to read the following guidelines before opening new issues.

### Avoid duplication

You'd help us out a lot by first checking if someone else has reported the same issue. Moreover, the issue may have already been resolved with a fix available.

### Help us to help you

Share as much information as possible. Include operating system and version, browser and version, version of DemocracyOS. Also include steps to reproduce the bug and any logs from browser and/or process whenever possible.

A good approach to a bug report is being very clear on how to reproduce it. Following this template might help (kudos to [@bastianhell](https://github.com/bastianhell)):<commit_msg>rm google mailing group docs<commit_after>---
title: Contributing
position: 4
---

# Contributing to DemocracyOS

If you have a question about DemocracyOS (not a bug report) please post it on [Gitter](https://gitter.im/DemocracyOS/app).


## Reporting bugs / Requesting features

For practical reasons we only accept issues that are bug reports or feature requests. Make sure to read the following guidelines before opening new issues.

### Avoid duplication

You'd help us out a lot by first checking if someone else has reported the same issue. Moreover, the issue may have already been resolved with a fix available.

### Help us to help you

Share as much information as possible. Include operating system and version, browser and version, version of DemocracyOS. Also include steps to reproduce the bug and any logs from browser and/or process whenever possible.

A good approach to a bug report is being very clear on how to reproduce it. Following this template might help (kudos to [@bastianhell](https://github.com/bastianhell)):
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{'dir': 'git-commits-cleaned', 'id': '6051461', 'n_tokens_mistral': 530, 'n_tokens_neox': 508, 'n_words': 300}