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Contributing to OpenVINO

How to contribute to the OpenVINO project

OpenVINO™ is always looking for opportunities to improve and your contributions play a big role in this process. There are several ways you can make the product better:

Provide Feedback

  • Report bugs / issues
    If you experience faulty behavior in OpenVINO or its components, you can create a new issue in the GitHub issue tracker.

  • Propose new features / improvements
    If you have a suggestion for improving OpenVINO or want to share your ideas, you can open a new GitHub Discussion. If your idea is already well defined, you can also create a Feature Request Issue In both cases, provide a detailed description, including use cases, benefits, and potential challenges. If your points are especially well aligned with the product vision, they will be included in the development roadmap. User feedback is crucial for OpenVINO development and even if your input is not immediately prioritized, it may be used at a later time or undertaken by the community, regardless of the official roadmap.

Contribute Code Changes

  • Fix Bugs or Develop New Features
    If you want to help improving OpenVINO, choose one of the issues reported in GitHub Issue Tracker and create a Pull Request addressing it. Consider one of the tasks listed as first-time contributions. If the feature you want to develop is more complex or not well defined by the reporter, it is always a good idea to discuss it with OpenVINO developers first. Before creating a new PR, check if nobody is already working on it. In such a case, you may still help, having aligned with the other developer.

    Importantly, always check if the change hasn't been implemented before you start working on it! You can build OpenVINO using the latest master branch and make sure that it still needs your changes. Also, do not address issues that only affect older non-LTS releases, like 2022.2.

  • Develop a New Device Plugin
    Since the market of computing devices is constantly evolving, OpenVINO is always open to extending its support for new hardware. If you want to run inference on a device that is currently not supported, you can see how to develop a new plugin for it in the Plugin Developer Guide.

Improve documentation

  • OpenVINO developer documentation is contained entirely in this repository, under the ./docs/dev folder.

  • User documentation is built from several sources and published at docs.openvino.ai, which is the recommended place for reading these documents. Use the files maintained in this repository only for editing purposes.

  • The easiest way to help with documentation is to review it and provide feedback on the existing articles. Whether you notice a mistake, see the possibility of improving the text, or think more information should be added, you can reach out to any of the documentation contributors to discuss the potential changes.

    You can also create a Pull Request directly, following the editor's guide.

Promote and Support OpenVINO

  • Popularize OpenVINO
    Articles, tutorials, blog posts, demos, videos, and any other involvement in the OpenVINO community is always a welcome contribution. If you discuss or present OpenVINO on various social platforms, you are raising awareness of the product among A.I. enthusiasts and enabling other people to discover the toolkit. Feel free to reach out to OpenVINO developers if you need help with making such community-based content.

  • Help Other Community Members
    If you are an experienced OpenVINO user and want to help, you can always share your expertise with the community. Check GitHub Discussions and Issues to see if you can help someone.

License

By contributing to the OpenVINO project, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the terms stated in the LICENSE file.