# Contribution Guidelines

Feel free to work on any issue with a #hacktoberfest label.

If you discover an issue you would like to work on, you can add a new issue to the list. If it meets our criteria, a hacktoberfest label will be added.

# Who is allowed to submit pull requests for this project?

Anyone can submit pull requests for code, tests, or documentation.

# How do you decide which pull requests to accept?

* Does it call out a bug that needs to be fixed? If so, it goes to the top of the list.
* Does it fix a major user inconvenience? These are given high priority as well.
* Does it align with the specs? If not, it will probably not be accepted. It turns out there are gray areas in the specs. If this is in a gray area, it will likely be given the benefit of the doubt.
* Does it break the existing behavior of the lib? If so, it will not be accepted, unless it fixes an egregious bug. This is happening less frequently now.

# For more guidance, see these links:

[README.md (includes build instructions)](https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java#readme)

[FAQ - all your questions answered](https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java/wiki/FAQ)