Contributing to Swift
There are a few ways that you can help make the community and Swift better. Surprisingly, it's not just by cranking out code. The community needs support with answering questions on the mailing lists. Your answers could range from helping a newbie get a better grasp on a new concept to, going to the opposite extreme, helping a seasoned developer work through a subtle bug. Either way, contributing your knowledge could be valuable to others and would be very much appreciated!
The next option for contributing to the Swift project is by either reporting or triaging bugs. The Swift team uses Jira for defect tracking and you can submit bugs on the project's Jira instance located at https://bugs.swift.org.
The final option you have as a developer is to contribute code. There is a formal process for committing code that we will briefly cover. The Swift project prefers small incremental changes to large commits or long-term disconnected feature branches. The Swift team also encourages, but does not enforce, commit messages that describe in detail what your committed code changes include. Code quality is extremely important and is emphasized through mandatory code reviews and pull requests to ensure at least another set of eyes has reviewed all code changes. Think of it this way; your changes will eventually make it into a production environment and have the potential to affect millions of developers that use the Swift language. Do you really want to take of chance introducing a defect that might affect millions of developers?
