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# Contributing

Welcome to Elyra! If you are interested in contributing to the [Elyra code repo](README.md)
then checkout the [Contributor's Guide](https://github.com/elyra-ai/community/blob/main/contributing.md) and 
the [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/elyra-ai/community/blob/main/code-of-conduct.md). 

The [Elyra community repo](https://github.com/elyra-ai/community) contains information on how the community
is organized and other information that is pertinent to contributing.

### Getting Started

It's encouraged that you look under the [Issues](https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues) tab for contribution opportunites.
For those new to the project, we suggest looking under:

- Issues tagged as [Good First Issue](https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22)
- Issues tagged as [Help Wanted](https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3A%22help+wanted%22 )
- Issues tagged as [Good First Project](https://github.com/elyra-ai/elyra/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+project%22)

If you are planning to contribute to source code, the [development workflow](https://elyra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/development-workflow.html) can help you set up and 
build Elyra in a development environment.