There is a `#contributing` channel on the community Slack which you can use
to ask any questions.

## Finding issues to work on

If you are looking for good first issues, take a look at the list of [good first issues](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/labels/good%20first%20issue) that should be actionable and ready for a contribution.

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### Negative Consequences

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### Migration and Enforcement

* **New code**: All new contributions must use American English

          close-pr-message: "This PR was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale. Please reopen if you'd like to work on this further."
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
      - name: Contribution issues
        uses: actions/stale@5f858e3efba33a5ca4407a664cc011ad407f2008 # v10.1.0
        with:
          #Comma separated list of labels that can be assigned to issues to exclude them from being marked as stale

You can download the release source from our [download page][maven-download].

Contributing
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If you are interested in the development of Maven, please consult the
documentation first and afterward you are welcome to join the developers
mailing list to ask questions or discuss new ideas/features/bugs etc.

Take a look into the [contribution guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).

License
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> **Quick Tip**: New contributors to Gradle projects are encouraged to ask questions in the Slack `#community-support` channel.

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### 🌱 **Contributing to Gradle**

- **Contribution Guide**: [Contribute](https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) to Gradle by submitting patches or pull requests for code or documentation improvements.

and, when the change is synced out, give the pull request author credit for the
commit.

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# Development - Contributing

First, you might want to see the basic ways to [help FastAPI and get help](help-fastapi.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Developing

If you already cloned the <a href="https://github.com/fastapi/fastapi" class="external-link" target="_blank">fastapi repository</a> and you want to deep dive in the code, here are some guidelines to set up your environment.

### Virtual environment

name: Contributor CI Build

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
    branches:
      - master

concurrency:
  # On master/release, we don't want any jobs cancelled so the sha is used to name the group
  group: ${{ (github.ref == 'refs/heads/master' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/release' ) && format('contributor-pr-base-{0}', github.sha) || format('contributor-pr-{0}', github.ref) }}
  cancel-in-progress: false

env: