# How to Contribute to KIWI

:+1::tada: First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! :tada::+1:

The following article is a set of guidelines for contributing to KIWI which
is hosted on the [SUSE Organization](https://github.com/SUSE) on GitHub.

## Reporting Bugs

* Ensure the bug was not already reported, see the
  [KIWI Issue Tracker](https://github.com/SUSE/kiwi/issues) on GitHub.
* Open an issue or reference an existing one
* Assign yourself to the issue when you are working on it
* Reference the issue number (with `issue#NUMBER`) in your pull request
* code coverage 100%
* No code without test!
* flake8 clean
* 80 characters per line for code (excluding tests)

## Asking Questions

If you need to discuss code issues, there is a KIWI mailing list on
Google Groups, see <kiwi-images@googlegroups.com>.


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