Welcome, Gopher! We’re really glad you’re considering contributing to Athens. We’d like to briefly introduce you to our community before you get started.
We have some hard-and-fast rules in our community, like our Code of Conduct, but instead of making rules pre-emptively, we try to keep in mind a shared philosophy to help us all make decisions and make new rules when we need to.
The philosophy section of these docs details our philosophy, and if you get involved with our project we encourage you to read it. If you’re just browsing for now, here’s a brief summary:
We hope you like what you see, and we’d love for you to get involved.
If you’re familiar with Git and GitHub basics, read how to participate in the Athens community to learn about how we organize ourselves and how to get started.
If you’re new to Git and GitHub, check out our guide for new contributors to open source, and then go on to that how to participate document I mentioned above.
Finally, if you are a new maintainer of the project, we have some documentation written for you at ./maintainers.