We welcome people who want to make contributions to Numba, big or small! Even simple documentation improvements are encouraged.

Asking questions

Numba has a discourse forum for longer/more involved questions and an IRC channel on gitter.im for quick questions and interactive help.

Ways to help:

There's lots of ways to help improve Numba, some of these require creating code changes, see contributing patches below.

Quick things:

• Answer a question asked on discourse or gitter.im.
• Review a page of documentation, check it makes sense, that it's clear and still relevant, that the examples are present, good and working. Fix anything that needs updating in a pull request.

More involved things:

• Review a pull request, you don't need to be a compiler engineer to do an initial review of a pull request. It's incredibly helpful to have pull requests go through a review to just make sure the code change is well formed, documented, efficient and clear. Further, if the code is fixing a bug, making sure that tests are present demonstrating it is fixed! Look out for PRs with the needs initial review label. There are also time boxed tasks available on the contributor self-service board.
• Work on fixing or implementing something in the code base, there are a lot of good first issue's and good second issue's. For implementing new features/functionality, the extension API is the best thing to use and a guide to using @overload in particular is here and the API documentation is here.

Contributing patches

Please fork the Numba repository on Github, and create a new branch containing your work. When you are done, open a pull request.

Further reading

Please read the contributing guide.