Contributing
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Issue tracker
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The Issue tracker serves mainly as a place to report bugs and request new features.
Please do not abuse it as a general questions or troubleshooting location.

General troubleshooting
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For these questions please use [Discussions](https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf/discussions). Add your enquiry
to appropriate category and as always, include a reproducible code example when applicable (see code example guidelines below).

You can also use the [mpdf tag](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mpdf)
at [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/)
as the StackOverflow user base is more likely to answer you in a timely manner.
When doing so, make sure you comply to StackOverflow question guidelines.

Bug reports
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* Bug reports **MUST** contain a small example in php/html that reproduces the bug.
* The code example **MUST** be reproducible by copy&paste assuming composer dependencies are installed. That means:
    * No calling unrelated funcions,
    * an actual final HTML code has to be present, pasting a template file is not enough,
    * if the bug considers import or fonts, example source PDF/TTF/etc files have to be included.
* Failing to provide necessary information or not using the issue template will cause the issue to be closed until required information is provided.
* Please report one feature or one bug per issue.

Feature requests
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Feature requests have to be labeled as such and have to include reasoning for the change in question.


Pull requests
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Pull requests should be always based on the default [development](https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf/tree/development)
branch except for backports to older versions.

Guidelines:

* Use an aptly named feature branch for the Pull request.
* Only files and lines affecting the scope of the Pull request must be affected.
* Make small, *atomic* commits that keep the smallest possible related code changes together.
* Code must be accompanied by a unit test testing expected behaviour whenever possible.
* To be incorporated, the PR should contain a change in the CHANGELOG.md file describing itself

When updating a PR, do not create a new one, just `git push --force` to your former feature branch, the PR will
update itself.