# How to contribute to Apache Flink

Thank you for your intention to contribute to the Apache Flink project. As an open-source community, we highly appreciate external contributions to our project.

To make the process smooth for the project *committers* (those who review and accept changes) and *contributors* (those who propose new changes via pull requests), there are a few rules to follow.

## Contribution Guidelines

Please check out the [How to Contribute guide](http://flink.apache.org/how-to-contribute.html) to understand how contributions are made.
There is also a list of [Coding Guidelines](http://flink.apache.org/coding-guidelines.html) that you should follow.