= Contributing

We welcome contributions from everyone. However, please follow the following guidelines when posting a GitHub Pull Request or filing a GitHub Issue on the dracut project:

By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the
xref:developer/code_of_conduct.adoc[].

== Filing Issues

We use GitHub Issues exclusively for tracking bugs and feature requests of dracut.

We only track bugs in the two most recently released versions of dracut in the GitHub Issue tracker.
If you are using an older version of dracut, please contact your distribution's bug tracker instead (see below). See GitHub Release Page for the list of most recent releases.

When filing an issue, specify the dracut version you are experiencing the issue with. Also, indicate which distribution you are using.
Please include an explanation how to reproduce the issue you are pointing out.

For more information on Coding Style and Commit messages see xref:developer/hacking.adoc[].

== Older or downstream versions

For older or downstream versions that are still supported by your distribution please use respective downstream tracker:

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=dracut[Debian]
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=dracut[Fedora]
* https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=dracut[Gentoo]
* https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=dracut[openSUSE]
