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# Development
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## Outside of docs
- [CONTRIBUTING.md ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ) main contributing guide
- [PROCESS.md ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/PROCESS.md ) contributing process
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- [GitLab Development Kit (GDK) ](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/blob/master/doc/howto/README.md ) to install a development version
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## Styleguides
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- [API styleguide ](api_styleguide.md ) Use this styleguide if you are
contributing to the API.
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- [Documentation styleguide ](doc_styleguide.md ) Use this styleguide if you are
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contributing to documentation.
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- [Writing documentation ](writing_documentation.md )
- [Distinction between general documentation and technical articles ](writing_documentation.md#distinction-between-general-documentation-and-technical-articles )
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- [SQL Migration Style Guide ](migration_style_guide.md ) for creating safe SQL migrations
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- [Testing standards and style guidelines ](testing.md )
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- [UX guide ](ux_guide/index.md ) for building GitLab with existing CSS styles and elements
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- [Frontend guidelines ](fe_guide/index.md )
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- [SQL guidelines ](sql.md ) for working with SQL queries
- [Sidekiq guidelines ](sidekiq_style_guide.md ) for working with Sidekiq workers
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- [`Gemfile` guidelines ](gemfile.md )
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## Process
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- [Generate a changelog entry with `bin/changelog` ](changelog.md )
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- [Limit conflicts with EE when developing on CE ](limit_ee_conflicts.md )
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- [Code review guidelines ](code_review.md ) for reviewing code and having code reviewed.
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- [Merge request performance guidelines ](merge_request_performance_guidelines.md )
for ensuring merge requests do not negatively impact GitLab performance
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## Backend howtos
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- [Architecture ](architecture.md ) of GitLab
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- [Gotchas ](gotchas.md ) to avoid
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- [How to dump production data to staging ](db_dump.md )
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- [Instrumentation ](instrumentation.md )
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- [Performance guidelines ](performance.md )
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- [Rake tasks ](rake_tasks.md ) for development
- [Shell commands ](shell_commands.md ) in the GitLab codebase
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- [Sidekiq debugging ](sidekiq_debugging.md )
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- [Object state models ](object_state_models.md )
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- [Building a package for testing purposes ](build_test_package.md )
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- [Manage feature flags ](feature_flags.md )
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## Databases
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- [What requires downtime? ](what_requires_downtime.md )
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- [Adding database indexes ](adding_database_indexes.md )
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- [Post Deployment Migrations ](post_deployment_migrations.md )
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- [Foreign Keys & Associations ](foreign_keys.md )
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- [Serializing Data ](serializing_data.md )
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- [Polymorphic Associations ](polymorphic_associations.md )
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- [Single Table Inheritance ](single_table_inheritance.md )
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- [Background Migrations ](background_migrations.md )
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## i18n
- [Internationalization for GitLab ](i18n_guide.md )
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## Compliance
- [Licensing ](licensing.md ) for ensuring license compliance