Do you have a question related to usage or configuration, please head over to the [Support Forum](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitlabhq).
If you want quick help, head over to our [Support Forum](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gitlabhq).
Otherwise you can follow our [Issue Submission Guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/Issue-Submission-Guide) for a more systematic and thorough guide to solving your issues.
## Contribute to GitLab
# Contribute to GitLab
If you want to contribute to GitLab, follow this process:
## Recipes
1. Fork the project
2. Create a feature branch
3. Code
4. Create a pull request
We collect user submitted installation scripts and config file templates for platforms we don't support officially.
We believe there is merit in allowing a certain amount of diversity.
You can get and submit your solution to running/configuring GitLab with your favorite OS/distro, database, web server, cloud hoster, configuration management tool, etc.
We will only accept pull requests if:
Help us improve the collection of [GitLab Recipes](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/)
* Your code has proper tests and all tests pass
* Your code can be merged w/o problems
* It won't break existing functionality
* It's quality code
* We like it :)
For examples of feedback on pull requests please look at the [closed pull requests](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/pulls?direction=desc&page=1&sort=created&state=closed).
## Feature suggestions
## Installation
Follow the [Issue Submission Guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/Issue-Submission-Guide) and support other peoples ideas or propose your own.
Install the Gitlab development in a virtual machine with the [Gitlab Vagrant virtual machine](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm). Installing it in a virtual machine makes it much easier to set up all the dependencies for integration testing.
## Running tests
## Code
For more information on running the tests please read the [development tips](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/master/doc/development.md)
Follow our [Developer Guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/Developer-Guide) to set you up for hacking on GitLab.
Install the Gitlab development in a virtual machine with the [Gitlab Vagrant virtual machine](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm). Installing it in a virtual machine makes it much easier to set up all the dependencies for integration testing.
