Guides for contributors

These guides will help you with the specific tasks and processes that build Ubuntu.

Getting set up

This section includes all the relevant tooling you’ll need to work on Ubuntu.

• Getting started

Debugging

• Debugging

Bug fixing

• Fix a bug

Patching

• Patching

Testing

• Testing

New packages

• New packages

Sponsorship

• How to find a sponsor

Advanced tasks

Although you do not need any elevated permissions to work on the tasks in this section, they are not suitable for beginners and require you to already have some working familiarity with Ubuntu development.

• Advanced contributor tasks

Contribute documentation

Ubuntu Project documentation is a collaborative effort. We welcome community contributions. For guidance on how to contribute to this documentation set, see:

• Contribute docs