Contributing

We are really happy that you are interested in contributing to JabRef. Please take your time to look around here. We especially invite you to look into our community members page where members introduce themselves.

I am not a programmer

I would like to improve the help page. What are the steps?

Please use the "Edit on GitHub" link at the upper right corner. Then, follow GitHub's guide to edit files in other user's repository.

I would like to help translating JabRef to another language. How do I get started?

We encourage you to read about translating the JabRef user interface.

I want to keep Wikipedia pages up-to-date

JabRef improves -- and Wikipedia pages should keep up!

Simply click on "Edit" (top right-hand tab).

Currently existing pages are:

• Deutsch: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Español: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Français: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Italiano: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Русский: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Portuguese: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Svenska: https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• Українська: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

• 中文: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/JabRef

If there is no page for you own language, you can easily create one.

I have some cool feature requests

Come discuss about it!

Can I make a donation? How?

Donations keeps us going! You can use Paypal, Flattr, or bank transfers. Your institution/company can contribute too, through bank transfer for example. All details are provided at https://donations.jabref.org.

Our team consists of volunteers. To provide better support, we are currently trying to get a funded developer on board. Please consider donating money!

I am a programmer

I want to learn about code quality

Please head to https://devdocs.jabref.org/code-quality to learn about our current efforts to measure and improve code quality.

I want to start with something easy

We collect small issues at https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/labels/good%20first%20issue. In case you do not find something suitable, you are invited to get in touch with us. Comment at the issue, check the the forum or join our chatting channel. For the brave, we also collect issues at https://github.com/koppor/jabref/labels/good%20first%20issue.

After finding something, please check our CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed information and further links.

I want something with huge impact

Look at the discussions in our forum at https://discourse.jabref.org/c/features/6. Find an interesting topic, discuss it and start contributing.

I need help with the code

You can talk to the core developers of JabRef in the gitter chat.