Contributing to Stanza

We would love to see contributions to Stanza from the community! Contributions that we welcome include bugfixes and enhancements. If you want to report a bug or suggest a feature but don't intend to fix or implement it by yourself, please create a corresponding issue on our issues page. If you plan to contribute a bugfix or enhancement, please read the following.

LLMs

If you have used an LLM to generate this PR, please also do the work understanding the problem, considering alternatives, and rebuilding new models (if relevant) to verify that there is an improvement. It is important to realize that if you have not done this, you are creating more work for us, not helping.

🛠️ Bugfixes

For bugfixes, please follow these steps:

• Make sure a fix does not already exist, by searching through existing issues (including closed ones) and pull requests.
• Confirm the bug with us by creating a bug-report issue. In your issue, you should at least include the platform and environment that you are running with, and a minimal code snippet that will reproduce the bug.
• Once the bug is confirmed, you can go ahead with implementing the bugfix, and create a pull request against the dev branch.

💡 Enhancements

For enhancements, please follow these steps:

• Make sure a similar enhancement suggestion does not already exist, by searching through existing issues.
• Create a feature-request issue and discuss about this enhancement with us. We'll need to make sure this enhancement won't break existing user interface and functionalities.
• Once the enhancement is confirmed with us, you can go ahead with implementing it, and create a pull request against the dev branch.