Forum FAQ - How to contribute to our Open Source GitHub repository

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How to contribute to our Open Source GitHub repository

This document is part of our beginners guide.

This article will familiarize you with our Open Source GitHub repository.

You can access it easily via our dedicated icon on the top navigation bar:
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Back in a day, we have made some of our activity packages open source.

You can see the list of them here:
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These activity packages are officially supported by UiPath and give you the chance to study their code to either build your own activities or to help us improve the ones above.

Contributions towards our Open Source GitHub repository are tracked by a set of Forum badges:
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How can I contribute?

We are glad you’ve asked! There are several ways.

If you want to jump right to it, simple browse the list of ideas gather under the pr-welcome tag.

Otherwise:

  1. Did you find an issue on the Forum that concerns one of the packages from our Open Source directory?
    Feel free to direct the user to the repository or even submit that issue on GitHub on their behalf and post the link to your GitHub issue in the original topic on the Forum.

  2. Do you know how to fix a specific issue listed here?
    Issues · UiPath/Community.Activities · GitHub
    Do the magic! We will validate your contribution and include it in the future release :slight_smile:

  3. Do you want to improve one of our Activity Packages?
    Feel free to add new features! We will validate your contribution and include it in the future release! :slight_smile:

  4. Do you have a suggestion for a piece of code that should be in this repository?

    We are all ears. Please post any of your suggestions or questions in this topic.

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This is super awesome initiative!!!

This will also give equal chance to all the amazing minds here in the forum to contribute to the core product to make it awesome!!

I will also try to be a part of this amazing team to get some ideas through :slight_smile:

Great work bro!! and let’s see some amazing innovating ideas coming up in the new releases :smiley:

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It is amazing how developers help other developers in our community, and always innovate and improve technology.