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Contributing

Interested in contributing to the Material for MkDocs? Have a question? Want to report a bug? Before you do, please read the following guidelines.

Submission context

Got a question or problem?

For quick questions there's no need to open an issue as you can reach us on gitter.im.

Found a bug?

If you found a bug in the source code, you can help us by submitting an issue to the issue tracker in our GitHub repository. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix. However, before doing so, please read the submission guidelines.

Missing a feature?

You can request a new feature by submitting an issue to our GitHub Repository. If you would like to implement a new feature, please submit an issue with a proposal for your work first to be sure that it is of use to everyone, as Material for MkDocs is highly opinionated. Please consider what kind of change it is:

  • For a major feature, first open an issue and outline your proposal so that it can be discussed. This will also allow us to better coordinate our efforts, prevent duplication of work, and help you to craft the change so that it is successfully accepted into the project.

  • Small features and bugs can be crafted and directly submitted as a Pull Request. However, there is no guarantee that your feature will make it into the master, as it's always a matter of opinion whether if benefits the overall functionality of the project.

Missing translations?

Material for MkDocs supports 60+ languages with the help of community contributions. When new features are added, sometimes, new translations are necessary as well. It's impossible for the maintainers of the project to update all translations (we just don't speak 60+ languages), so we have to rely on our contributors to update translations incrementally. This process is pretty simple, so if you find a translation missing in your language, follow these guidelines:

  1. Fork the repository.

  2. Open up the translation file for your language as well as the English translations, as they are always up-to-date. Compare them side-by-side and add the missing translations. Important: only add the translations that are different from the defaults, e.g. if your language is left-to-right, don't add the direction translation, as English is left-to-right as well. The following translations are for technical purposes and should not be updated, so if they're missing from your language, it's for good reason:

    • search.config.lang
    • search.config.pipeline
    • search.config.separator

  3. Create a PR (see below) with your changes.

Submission guidelines

Submitting an issue

Before you submit an issue, please search the issue tracker, maybe an issue for your problem already exists, and the discussion might inform you of workarounds readily available.

We want to fix all the issues as soon as possible, but before fixing a bug, we need to reproduce and confirm it. In order to reproduce bugs, we will systematically ask you to provide a minimal reproduction scenario using the custom issue template. Please stick to the issue template.

Unfortunately, we are not able to investigate / fix bugs without a minimal reproduction scenario, so if we don't hear back from you, we may close the issue.

Submitting a Pull Request (PR)

Search GitHub for an open or closed PR that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort. If you do not find a related issue or PR, go ahead.

  1. Development: Fork the project, set up the development environment, make your changes in a separate git branch and add descriptive messages to your commits.

  2. Build: Before submitting a pull request, build the theme. This is a mandatory requirement for your PR to get accepted, as the theme should be installable through GitHub at all times.

  3. Pull Request: After building the theme, commit the compiled output, push your branch to GitHub and send a PR to mkdocs-material:master. If we suggest changes, make the required updates, rebase your branch and push the changes to your GitHub repository, which will automatically update your PR.

After your PR is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository.