In general, the Matplotlib project does not assign issues. Issues are

"assigned" or "claimed" by opening a PR; there is no other assignment

mechanism. If you have opened such a PR, please comment on the issue thread to

avoid duplication of work. Please check if there is an existing PR for the

issue you are addressing. If there is, try to work with the author by

"assigned" or "claimed" by

:ref:`proposing a solution via a pull request<how-to-pull-request>`.

We ask pull request (PR) authors to

`link to the issue in the PR

<https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue>`_ because then Github adds corresponding links to the PR to the discussion and the sidebar on the linked issue page on GitHub.

Before starting to work on an issue, please check if there is already

a linked PR. If there is, try to work with the author by

submitting reviews of their code or commenting on the PR rather than opening

a new PR; duplicate PRs are subject to being closed. However, if the existing

a new PR; duplicate PRs are unnecessary concurrent work and thus are subject

to being closed. However, if the existing

PR is an outline, unlikely to work, or stalled, and the original author is

unresponsive, feel free to open a new PR referencing the old one.

*:ref:`pr-guidelines`

Code is contributed through pull requests, so we recommend that you start at

:ref:`how-to-contribute` If you get stuck, please reach out on the

:ref:`how-to-pull-request` If you get stuck, please reach out on the

:ref:`contributor_incubator`

.. _contribute_documentation:

*:doc:`tag_guidelines`

Documentation is contributed through pull requests, so we recommend that you start

at:ref:`how-to-contribute`. If that feels intimidating, we encourage you to

at:ref:`how-to-pull-request`. If that feels intimidating, we encourage you to

`open an issue`_ describing what improvements you would make. If you get stuck,

please reach out on the:ref:`contributor_incubator`

If you have developed an extension to Matplotlib, please consider adding it to our

`third party package<https://github.com/matplotlib/mpl-third-party>`_ list.

.. _how-to-contribute:

.. _how-to-pull-request:

How to contribute via pull request

:octicon:`git-pull-request;1em;sd-text-info`:ref:`How do I claim an issue?<managing_issues_prs>`

:octicon:`codespaces;1em;sd-text-info`:ref:`How do I start a pull request?<how-to-contribute>`

:octicon:`codespaces;1em;sd-text-info`:ref:`How do I start a pull request?<how-to-pull-request>`

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