Thank you for your interest in contributing to Webots-server! The following is a set of guidelines for helping you to contribute to Webots-server.
You don't need to be an expert in robotics or software development to become a contributor. Depending on your skills, your contribution may address different parts of Webots-server:
- Bug reporting: A precise description of a reproducible bug is very helpful to us.
- Technical English writing: documentation pages.
In any case, you should have a minimal knowledge of GitHub to fork our repository and create a Pull Request that we will review and hopefully accept.
- Fork the repository: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo
- Create a branch in your fork: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-and-deleting-branches-within-your-repository
- Pull the branch as a pull request targeting
cyberbotics:webots-server@main: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork - Wait for our review of your pull request.
Our git workflow is explained in detail here.
- Follow our Coding Style.
- Avoid comitting files that exist elsewhere. Instead you should link to the source of these files.
- Avoid comitting files that can be re-created from other files using a Makefile, a script or a compiler.