Contribution

A contribution is a change submitted to a software project, typically in the form of a pull request or patch. Contributing to open-source projects is a core part of the PHP ecosystem: the language itself, its extensions, and the majority of popular frameworks and libraries are developed collaboratively.

Contributions can take many forms:

  • Bug reports and reproducible test cases

  • Code fixes, new features, and refactoring

  • Documentation improvements

  • Test coverage additions

  • Translations and localization

Many Open Source projects provide a CONTRIBUTING.md file that describes coding standards, testing requirements, and the review process.

PHP’s own development process goes through RFCs voted on by internals contributors.

<?php

// Example: typical open-source contribution workflow (shell commands)
// git clone https://github.com/vendor/project
// cd project
// git checkout -b fix/issue-123
// # Make changes
// git add .
// git commit -m 'Fix: description of the change'
// git push origin fix/issue-123
// # Open a pull request on GitHub

?>

Documentation

See also Contributing to open source - GitHub Docs and PHP Internals.

Related : Open Source, git, Pull Request (PR), PHP RFC, Community