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+# Contributing to phpMyAdmin
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+As an open source project, phpMyAdmin welcomes contributions of many forms.
+
+## Bug reporting
+
+We appreciate your effort to improve phpMyAdmin by submitting a bug report. Before doing so, please check the following things: 
+
+1. Check whether the bug you face **hasn't been already reported**. Duplicate reports takes us time, that we could be used to fix other bugs or make improvements. 
+2. Specify the phpMyAdmin, server, PHP, MySQL and browser information that may be helpful to fix the problem, especially exact **version numbers**. 
+3. If you got some error, please **describe what happened** and add error message. Reports like "I get error when I clicked on some link." are useless. 
+4. Provide easy steps to reproduce and if possible include your table structure (``SHOW CREATE TABLE `tbl_name```); if your problem implies specific data, attach a small export file for sample rows. 
+5. **Security problems** should not be reported here. See [our security page](https://www.phpmyadmin.net/security/).
+Thanks for your help! 
+
+Please report [bugs on GitHub][1].
+
+[1]: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/new
+
+## Patches submission
+
+Patches are welcome as [pull requests on GitHub][2].  Please include a
+Signed-off-by tag.  Note that by submitting patches with the Signed-off-by
+tag, you are giving permission to license the patch as GPLv2-or-later.  See
+[the DCO file][3] for details.
+
+[2]: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/pulls
+[3]: https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/master/DCO
+
+## More information
+
+You can find more information on our website:
+
+https://www.phpmyadmin.net/contribute/