# Ansible Community Guide

Welcome to the Ansible Community Guide!

The purpose of this guide is to teach you everything you need to know about being a contributing member of the Ansible community.

To get started, please read and understand the Community Code of Conduct, and then select one of the following topics.

- Community Code of Conduct
  - Anti-harassment policy
  - Policy violations
- The Ansible Development Process
- Road Maps
- Pull Requests
  - Backport Pull Request Process
- Ansibullbot
  - Overview
  - Community Maintainers
  - Workflow
  - PR Labels
- Reporting Bugs And Requesting Features
  - Reporting A Bug
  - Requesting a feature
- How To Help
  - Become a power user
  - Ask and answer questions online
  - Participate in your local meetup
  - File and verify issues
  - Review and submit pull requests
  - Become a module maintainer
  - Join a working group
  - Teach Ansible to others
  - Social media
- Module Maintainer Guidelines
  - Maintainer Responsibilities
  - Pull Requests, Issues, and Workflow
  - Tools and other Resources
- Release Managers
  - Pre-releases: What and Why
- Release Process
- Communicating
  - Code of Conduct
  - Mailing List Information
  - IRC Channel
  - Tower Support Questions
- Other Tools And Programs
  - Popular Editors
  - Development Tools
  - Tools for Validating Playbooks
  - Other Tools