# NocoDB Contributing Guide
Thanks for spending your time to contribute! The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to NocoDB.
## Table of Contents
- [Pull Request Guidelines ](#pull-request-guidelines )
- [Development Setup ](#development-setup )
* [Committing Changes ](#committing-changes )
* [Applying License ](#applying-license )
+ [Modifying existing file ](#modifying-existing-file )
+ [Creating new file ](#creating-new-file )
+ [Sign your existing work ](#sign-your-existing-work )
+ [Sign your previous work ](#sign-your-previous-work )
- [Project Structure ](#project-structure )
- [Financial Contribution ](#financial-contribution )
- [Credits ](#credits )
## Pull Request Guidelines
- When you create a PR, you should fill in all the info defined in this [template ](https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/blob/master/.github/pull_request_template.md ).
- We adopt [Gitflow Design ](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/comparing-workflows/gitflow-workflow ). However, we do not have release branches.
- The `master` branch is just a snapshot of the latest stable release. All development should be done in dedicated branches.
**Do not submit PRs against the `master` branch.**
- Checkout a topic branch from the relevant branch, e.g. `develop` , and merge back against that branch.
- Multiple small commits are allowed on the PR - They will be squashed into one commit before merging.
- If your changes are related to a special issue, add `ref: #xxx` to link the issue where xxx is the issue id.
## Development Setup
Please refer to [Development Setup ](https://docs-dev.nocodb.com/engineering/development-setup ).
### Committing Changes
We encourage all contributors to commit messages following [Commit Message Convention ](./COMMIT_CONVENTION.md ).
### Applying License
We require a CLA (Contributor License Agreement). This is a one-time process. Please click this [link ](https://cla-assistant.io/nocodb/nocodb ) to agree to the CLA for nocodb/nocodb.
