# Contributing to Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Thanks for your interest in this project.

## Project description

The Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) provides tools to create, develop,
test, debug, build and deploy Eclipse plug-ins, fragments, features, update
sites and RCP products.

* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.pde

## Developer resources

Information regarding source code management, builds, coding standards, and
more.

* https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.pde/developer

The project maintains the following source code repositories

* https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/

This project uses Github issues and pull requests to track ongoing development and issues.

* Issues: https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/issues
* Pull requests: https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pulls

Pull requests are always welcome!
See also https://github.com/eclipse-platform/#community


## Eclipse Contributor Agreement

Before your contribution can be accepted by the project team contributors must
electronically sign the Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA).

* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/ECA.php

Commits that are provided by non-committers must have a Signed-off-by field in
the footer indicating that the author is aware of the terms by which the
contribution has been provided to the project. The non-committer must
additionally have an Eclipse Foundation account and must have a signed Eclipse
Contributor Agreement (ECA) on file.

For more information, please see the Eclipse Committer Handbook:
https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#resources-commit

## Contact

Contact the project developers via Github discussions

* https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/discussions