# Contributing to Vitess

For external contributors, we recommend the standard [GitHub flow](https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/)
based on [forking and pull requests](https://guides.github.com/activities/forking/).

For significant changes, please [create an issue](https://github.com/youtube/vitess/issues)
to let everyone know what you're planning to work on, and to track progress and design decisions.