We made CockroachDB source-available to empower developers to fix and extend the product to better meet their needs.  Nothing thrills us more than people so passionate about the product that they‘re willing to spend their own time to learn the codebase and give back to the community. We created this doc so we can support contributors in a way that doesn’t sacrifice precious bandwidth that we use to serve our users and otherwise meet our business goals.

How to contribute

Before you start a project:

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