# Contributing to VisualVM

## Opening issues

Please let us know your ideas, missing features, or bugs found. Either [file a RFE/bug](https://github.com/oracle/visualvm/issues/new/choose) or [leave us a message](https://visualvm.github.io/feedback.html).

Any information, ideas or suggestions that you provide to us either through a Bug Report or a Feature Request ([https://github.com/oracle/visualvm/issues/new/choose](https://github.com/oracle/visualvm/issues/new/choose)) or using Gitter chat or email shall be considered Feedback. If you think you've found a security
vulnerability, do not raise a GitHub issue and follow the instructions in our [security policy](./SECURITY.md).

## Contributing code

For legal reasons, we cannot accept external pull requests. 

## Pull request process

**Pull requests are currently not being accepted for the VisualVM project.**

## Code of conduct

Oracle and its affiliates have a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to use, reproduce, distribute or otherwise commercialize any Feedback that you voluntarily provide.  Oracle shall have no obligation to respond to any Feedback or to incorporate your Feedback into the VisualVM software.

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