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Hi! Thanks for your interest in contributing to the GitHub CLI!
We accept pull requests for bug fixes and features where we've discussed the approach in an issue and given the go-ahead for a community member to work on it. We'd also love to hear about ideas for new features as issues.
We accept pull requests for issues labelled `help wanted`. We encourage issues and discussion posts for all other contributions.
### Please do:
* Check issues to verify that a [bug][bug issues] or [feature request][feature request issues] issue does not already exist for the same problem or feature
* Open an issue if things aren't working as expected
* Open an issue to propose a significant change
* Open an issue to propose a change
* Open an issue to propose a design for an issue labelled [`needs-design` and `help wanted`][needs design and help wanted], following the [proposing a design guidelines](#proposing-a-design) instructions below
* Open an issue to propose a new community supported `gh` package with details about support and redistribution
* Mention `@cli/code-reviewers` when an issue you want to work on does not have clear Acceptance Criteria
* Open a pull request for any issue labelled [`help wanted`][hw] and [`good first issue`][gfi]
### Please _do not_:
### Please _do NOT_:
* Open a pull request for issues without the `help wanted` label or explicit Acceptance Criteria
* Expand pull request scope to include changes that are not described in the issue's Acceptance Criteria