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description: "Development Guidelines: learn how to contribute to GitLab."
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# Contribute to the development of GitLab
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Learn how to contribute to the development of the GitLab product.
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This content is intended for members of the GitLab Team as well as community
contributors. Content specific to the GitLab Team should instead be included in
the [Handbook ](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/ ).
For information on using GitLab to work on your own software projects, see the
[GitLab user documentation ](../user/index.md ).
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For information on working with the GitLab APIs, see the [API documentation ](../api/index.md ).
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For information about how to install, configure, update, and upgrade your own
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GitLab instance, see the [Administrator documentation ](../administration/index.md ).
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## Get started
- Set up the GitLab development environment with the
[GitLab Development Kit (GDK) ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/-/blob/main/README.md )
- [GitLab contributing guide ](contributing/index.md )
- [Issues workflow ](contributing/issue_workflow.md ) for more information about:
- Issue tracker guidelines.
- Triaging.
- Labels.
- Feature proposals.
- Issue weight.
- Regression issues.
- Technical or UX debt.
- [Merge requests workflow ](contributing/merge_request_workflow.md ) for more
information about:
- Merge request guidelines.
- Contribution acceptance criteria.
- Definition of done.
- Dependencies.
- [Style guides ](contributing/style_guides.md )
- [Implement design & UI elements ](contributing/design.md )
- [GitLab Architecture Overview ](architecture.md )
- [Rake tasks ](rake_tasks.md ) for development