# Contributing to Boulder

> **Note:** We are currently in a *General Availability* only merge window, meaning
> we will only be reviewing & merging patches which close a issue tagged with the *General
> Availability* milestone.

Thanks for helping us build Boulder, if you haven't already had a chance to look
over our patch submission guidelines take a minute to do so now.

* [Patch requirements](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#patch-requirements)
* [Review requirements](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#review-requirements)
* [Patch guidelines](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#patch-guidelines)
  * [Deployability](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#deployability)
    * [Good zero values for config fields](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#good-zero-values-for-config-fields)
    * [Flag-gated RPCs](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#flag-gated-rpcs)
  * [Dependencies](https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder/wiki/Boulder-Development#dependencies)

## Problems or questions?

The best place to ask dev related questions is either the [discussion list](https://groups.google.com/a/letsencrypt.org/forum/#!forum/ca-dev) or [IRC](https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#letsencrypt).
