Good first contributions¶

We welcome contributions to Flower! However, it is not always easy to know where to start. We therefore put together a few recommendations on where to start to increase your chances of getting your PR accepted into the Flower codebase.

Where to start¶

Until the Flower core library matures it will be easier to get PR’s accepted if they only touch non-core areas of the codebase. Good candidates to get started are:

  • Documentation: What’s missing? What could be expressed more clearly?

  • Baselines: See below.

  • Examples: See below.

Request for Flower Baselines¶

If you are not familiar with Flower Baselines, you should probably check-out our contributing guide for baselines.

You should then check out the open issues for baseline requests. If you find a baseline that you’d like to work on and that has no assignees, feel free to assign it to yourself and start working on it!

Otherwise, if you don’t find a baseline you’d like to work on, be sure to open a new issue with the baseline request template!

Request for examples¶

We wish we had more time to write usage examples because we believe they help users to get started with building what they want to build. Here are a few ideas where we’d be happy to accept a PR:

  • Llama 2 fine-tuning, with Hugging Face Transformers and PyTorch

  • XGBoost

  • Android ONNX on-device training