💡Getting started guide for new contributors #3221
Description
Information for new contributors
Thank you for your interest in contributing to aeon! We have a lot of resources and guidance on our webpage (https://www.aeon-toolkit.org/en/stable/) which will be useful. If you feel any of these pages are confusing or you spot an error, feel free to open and issue and/or discuss with us on Discord.
For a quick introduction to time series, how we handle time series data types and the modules present in aeon have a look at our getting started page for users.
Before asking to be assigned to an issue, read through our developer installation and contributor guide. We expect a baseline level of experience and the ability to adequately respond to reviews. The project developers are volunteers, and during busy times it may take a while for reviews. Please do not rush to or repeatedly send notifications to potential reviewers.
We provide further guides for dedicated topics in our developer guide page. The most useful ones for most contributors will be the testing and documentation pages. If you are altering public facing code, please make sure that the relevant API page is rendering correctly.
AI usage
aeon will reject PRs which are primarily constructed of LLM output and where AI has been used as a substitute for authorship, understanding, and/or testing. See our AI policy document for general guidelines.
GSoC applicants
aeon is not planning to apply or put up projects for GSoC in 2026.