Contributing to FAST-HEP

FAST-HEP is developed openly, and contributions of all sizes are welcome.

There are many ways to contribute, including:

• reporting bugs or suggesting improvements
• improving documentation
• adding tutorials and examples
• writing tests
• contributing analysis operations or other capabilities
• improving infrastructure and developer tooling
• working on the FAST-HEP packages themselves

The contribution guidelines are maintained centrally in the fasthep repository:

Read the FAST-HEP contribution guide →

The guide covers the development environment, coding and testing conventions, documentation, larger architectural changes, and AI-assisted contributions.

Questions and ideas#

You do not need to have an implementation ready before getting involved.

For questions, ideas, or project-wide discussions, use FAST-HEP Discussions.

For concrete bugs and feature requests, use the FAST-HEP issue tracker.