First of all, thank you! Please consider this [style guide](https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/contributing/style-guide.html) when submitting your changes. Also, please join our [community](https://community.nodebb.org) to meet other NodeBB developers and designers :)
Thank you for considering contributing to NodeBB. **Before we can accept any pull requests, please take a moment to read and sign our [license agreement](https://www.clahub.com/agreements/NodeBB/NodeBB)**. In summary, signing this document means that 1) you own the code that you are contributing and 2) you give permission to NodeBB Inc. to license the code to others. This agreement applies to any repository under the NodeBB organization.
If you are writing contributions as part of employment from another company / individual, then your employer will need to sign a separate agreement. Please [contact us](mailto:accounts@nodebb.org) so that we can send this additional agreement to your employer.
Chances are somebody has run into this problem before. After consulting our [documentation](https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os.html), please head over to our [community support forum](https://community.nodebb.org) for advice.
Thanks for reporting an issue with NodeBB! Please follow these guidelines in order to streamline the debugging process. The more guidelines you follow, the easier it will be for us to reproduce your problem.
In general, if we can't reproduce it, we can't fix it!
There is a chance that the issue you are experiencing may have already been fixed.
## Provide the NodeBB version number and git hash
You can find the NodeBB version number in the Admin Control Panel (ACP), as well as the first line output to the shell when running NodeBB
``` plaintext
info: NodeBB v0.5.2-dev Copyright (C) 2013-2014 NodeBB Inc.
info: This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
info: This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
info:
info: Time: Tue Oct 07 2014 20:25:20 GMT-0400 (EDT)
```
If you are running NodeBB via git, it is also helpful to let the maintainers know what commit hash you are on. To find the commit hash, execute the following command:
If you have installed NodeBB via GitHub clone, are familiar with utilising git, and are willing to help us narrow down the specific commit that causes a bug, consider running `git bisect`.