# Contributing Thank you very much for your interest in this project! Contributions are possible by various means. ## Feedback Feedback is very important and most welcome! You can currently use the [issue tracker](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/issues/new) or the [gitter room](https://gitter.im/eikek/docspell) to leave feedback or say hi. You can also access the gitter room using your favorite [matrix](https://matrix.org/) client. If you don't like to sign up to github/matrix or like to reach me personally, you can make a mail to `info [at] docspell.org` or on matrix, via `@eikek:matrix.org`. If you find a feature request already filed, you can vote on it. I tend to prefer most voted requests to those without much attention. ## Documentation The website `https://docspell.org` contains the main documentation and is also hosted in this repository. The sources are in `/website` folder. It is built using [zola](https://github.com/getzola/zola), a static site generator. If you want to contribute to the documentation, please see the [README](https://github.com/eikek/docspell/blob/master/website/README.md) in this folder for how to get started. It is recommended to install [nix](https://nixos.org/guides/install-nix.html) in order to not fiddle with dependencies. The main content is in `/website/site/content` and sibling directories. There are always two versions of the website: the currently released version and the development version (which is becoming the next release). If you want to contribute to the current docs, please base your PR off the `current-docs` branch. ## Code Code is very welcome, too, of course. If you want to work on something larger, please create an issue or let's discuss it on gitter first. The backend of docspell is written in [Scala](https://scala-lang.org) using a pure functional style. It builds on great libraries from the [typelevel](https://typelevel.org) ecosystem, i.e. [cats](https://typelevel.org/cats), [fs2](https://fs2.io), [doobie](https://tpolecat.github.io/doobie/) and [http4s](https://http4s.org/). The backend consists of two components: a http/rest server and the job executor, both running in separate processes. The web frontend is written in [Elm](https://elm-lang.org), which is a nice functional language that compiles to javascript. The frontend is included in the http/restserver component. The CSS is provided by [TailwindCSS](https://tailwindcss.com/).. The [development](https://docspell.org/docs/dev) pages contains some tips to get started.