- Getting started
- Development workflow
- Issues and triaging
- Documentation
- Testing and buildbots
- Development tools
- Core team
- CPython’s internals
- Status of Python versions
- Python Contributor’s Guide (draft)
- [Plan for the Contributor’s Guide]
- Introduction
- The CPython project
- Issues and triaging
- Documentation contributions
- Code contributions
- Core team
- Accessibility, design, and user success
- Security and infrastructure contributions
- Workflows
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Getting started¶
- Setup and building
- Fixing “easy” issues (and beyond)
- Git bootcamp and cheat sheet
- Forking CPython GitHub repository
- Cloning a forked CPython repository
- Configure the remotes
- Listing the remote repositories
- Setting up your name and email address
- Enabling
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- Deleting branches
- Renaming branch
- Staging and committing files
- Reverting changes
- Stashing changes
- Comparing changes
- Pushing changes
- Creating a pull request
- Linking to issues and pull requests
- Updating your CPython fork
- Applying a patch to Git
- Checking out others’ pull requests
- Accepting and merging a pull request
- Cancelling an automatic merge
- Backporting merged changes
- Editing a pull request prior to merging
- GitHub CLI
- Git worktree
- Lifecycle of a pull request
- Where to get help
- Generative AI