One of the easiest ways to contribute is to participate in discussions and discuss issues. You can also contribute by submitting pull requests with code changes.
Please start a discussion on the Home repo issue tracker.
For non-security related bugs please log a new issue in the appropriate GitHub repo. Here are some of the most common repos:
Or browse the full list of repos in the aspnet organization.
Security issues and bugs should be reported privately, via email, to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) [email protected]. You should receive a response within 24 hours. If for some reason you do not, please follow up via email to ensure we received your original message. Further information, including the MSRC PGP key, can be found in the Security TechCenter.
Our team members also monitor several other discussion forums:
- ASP.NET Core forum
- Stack Overflow with the
asp.net-core,asp.net-core-mvc, orentity-framework-coretags.
When filing issues, please use our bug filing templates. The best way to get your bug fixed is to be as detailed as you can be about the problem. Providing a minimal project with steps to reproduce the problem is ideal. Here are questions you can answer before you file a bug to make sure you're not missing any important information.
- Did you read the documentation?
- Did you include the snippet of broken code in the issue?
- What are the EXACT steps to reproduce this problem?
- What package versions are you using (you can see these in the
.csprojfile)? - What operating system are you using?
- What version of IIS are you using?
GitHub supports markdown, so when filing bugs make sure you check the formatting before clicking submit.
If you would like to contribute to one of our repositories, first identify the scale of what you would like to contribute. If it is small (grammar/spelling or a bug fix) feel free to start working on a fix. If you are submitting a feature or substantial code contribution, please discuss it with the team and ensure it follows the product roadmap. You might also read these two blogs posts on contributing code: Open Source Contribution Etiquette by Miguel de Icaza and Don't "Push" Your Pull Requests by Ilya Grigorik. Note that all code submissions will be rigorously reviewed and tested by the ASP.NET and Entity Framework teams, and only those that meet an extremely high bar for both quality and design/roadmap appropriateness will be merged into the source.
If you are an outside contributor, please fork the ASP.NET repository you would like to contribute to your account. See the GitHub documentation for forking a repo if you have any questions about this.
As our repositories use the latest bits of our code, we have a custom build script to fetch and use them. Please go through building our repositories from source to understand and fix any issues.
You will need to sign a Contributor License Agreement when submitting your pull request. To complete the Contributor License Agreement (CLA), you will need to follow the instructions provided by the CLA bot when you send the pull request. This needs to only be done once for any .NET Foundation OSS project.
If you don't know what a pull request is read this article: https://help.github.com/articles/using-pull-requests. Make sure the respository can build and all tests pass. Familiarize yourself with the project workflow and our coding conventions. The coding, style, and general engineering guidelines are published on the Engineering guidelines page.
Pull requests should all be done to the release/2.2 (for the next release) or master (for 3.0 work) branch.
Summary of the changes (Less than 80 chars)
- Detail 1
- Detail 2
Addresses #bugnumber (in this specific format)
- Tests need to be provided for every bug/feature that is completed.
- Tests only need to be present for issues that need to be verified by QA (e.g. not tasks)
- If there is a scenario that is far too hard to test there does not need to be a test for it.
- "Too hard" is determined by the team as a whole.
Your pull request will now go through extensive checks by the subject matter experts on our team. Please be patient; we have hundreds of pull requests across all of our repositories. Update your pull request according to feedback until it is approved by one of the ASP.NET team members. After that, one of our team members will add the pull request to release/2.2 or master.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.