How to contribute

Nightscout is a community-led project and the most valuable contribution you can make is your time. Every little bit helps.

Documentation

Nightscout has a legacy which includes documentation scattered across multiple sites. This site is an attempt to pull all that documentation together into one place and have it available for the community to update. Options for helping with documentation include:

  • Updating this documentation. If you find a mistake or that information is incomplete, the fastest way to help out is to submit the change yourself via a method called a pull request to the documentation repository Nightscout documentation on Github.
There is a handy guide to explain what a pull request is and how to raise one in the #OpenAPS documentation, here. Note that clicking the link takes you to another project, #OpenAPS, however the instructions for a pull request are the same for the Nightscout project.
  • If you are unable to raise a pull request yourself, you can notify the community of a documentation issue. The community would prefer you do this via a pull request though! We highly value direct contribution.
  • If you find another site hosting Nightscout documentation which appears to be out of date or redundant, you can notify us via a documentation issue as well.
  • If you’d like to volunteer for a larger block of work, such as translation of the documentation or review prior to a new release of Nightscout, reach out on Gitter.

Code

If you would like to contribute code, please head over to Github and read CONTRIBUTING.md.

Supporting users

Although there is no warranty or support for Nightscout, there is an active community helping each other out. The best way to support others is to join the Facebook group CGM in the Cloud. There are no formal roles on that group; each person helps out according to their ability.

All information, thought, and code described here is intended for informational and educational purposes only. Nightscout currently makes no attempt at HIPAA privacy compliance. Use of code from github.com is without warranty or support of any kind. Please review the LICENSE found within each repository for further details. Use Nightscout at your own risk, and do not use the information or code to make medical decisions.