Contributing to MantisBT

First of all, we would like to thank you for considering helping us improve MantisBT. We look forward to receiving your contributions.

This document briefly describes our expectations with regards to your patches.

Requirements

We assume that you have

Make sure your feature branch is up-to-date

Any Pull Request (PR) you submit must meet the following criteria:

On principle, all PRs must be based on the master branch. The only exception to this rule is when fixing a confirmed issue in the stable release, in which case the patch can be based on the corresponding branch (e.g. master-x.y.z). We do not accept new features on stable releases.
The PR's description must reference an existing issue in our Tracker; Create one if needed.
Submissions must respect our coding guidelines

Process

Further reading

dev guide
wiki
submit against master branch

Examples https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md