Contribute#

Thank you for your interest in helping to improve Matplotlib! There are various ways to contribute: optimizing and refactoring code, detailing unclear documentation and writing new examples, reporting and fixing bugs and requesting and implementing new features, helping the community...

New contributors#

If you are new to contributing, we recommend that you first read our contributing guide. If you are contributing code or documentation, please follow our guides for setting up and managing a development environment and workflow. For code, documentation, or triage, please follow the corresponding contribution guidelines.

Development environment#

Policies and guidelines#