# RDFLib Contributing Guide

Thank you for considering contributing to RDFLib. This project has no formal
funding or full-time maintainers and relies entirely on independent contributors
to keep it alive and relevant.

## Ways to contribute

Some ways in which you can contribute to RDFLib are:

- Address open issues:
  [![GitHub issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/RDFLib/rdflib)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues)
- Fix
  [expected failure](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/how-to/skipping.html#xfail-mark-test-functions-as-expected-to-fail)
  tests.
- Add additional
  [expected failure](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/how-to/skipping.html#xfail-mark-test-functions-as-expected-to-fail)
  tests for open issues:
  [![GitHub issues](https://img.shields.io/github/issues/RDFLib/rdflib)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/issues)
- Add tests for untested code:
  [![Coveralls branch](https://img.shields.io/coveralls/RDFLib/rdflib/main.svg)](https://coveralls.io/r/RDFLib/rdflib?branch=main)
- Review pull requests marked with the
  [![review wanted](https://img.shields.io/badge/-review%20wanted-28ead2)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/labels/review%20wanted)
  label.
- Answer questions on Stack Overflow:
  [![Stack Exchange questions](https://img.shields.io/stackexchange/stackoverflow/t/rdflib)](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rdflib)
- Convert
  [`unittest`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html)
  based tests to
  [`pytest`](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/)
  based tests:
  [![GitHub search query](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-search-green)](https://github.com/search?q=unittest+repo%3ARDFLib%2Frdflib+extension%3Apy+path%3Atest%2F&type=Code)
- Add, correct or improve docstrings:
  [![rtd latest](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-informational)](https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
- Update the RDFLib Wikipedia entry:
  [![Wikipedia: RDFLib](https://img.shields.io/badge/Wikipedia-RDFLib-informational)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDFLib)
- Update the RDFLib Wikidata entry:
  [![Wikidata: Q7276224](https://img.shields.io/badge/Wikidata-Q7276224-informational)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7276224)
- Participate on Gitter/Matrix chat:
  [![Gitter](https://badges.gitter.im/RDFLib/rdflib.svg)](https://gitter.im/RDFLib/rdflib?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=badge&utm_campaign=pr-badge) [![Matrix](https://img.shields.io/matrix/rdflib:matrix.org?label=matrix.org%20chat)](https://matrix.to/#/#RDFLib_rdflib:gitter.im)
- Participate in GitHub discussions:
  [![GitHub Discussions](https://img.shields.io/github/discussions/RDFLib/rdflib)](https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib/discussions)
- Fix flake8 failures.

## Pull Requests

Contributions that involve changes to the RDFLib repository have to be made with
pull requests and should follow the [RDFLib developers guide](./developers.rst).

## Code of Conduct

All contributions to the project should be consistent with the [code of conduct](./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) adopted by RDFLib.