Thank you (again) for your interest in the project!
We recommend you come and talk to us in the channel and/or open an issue before you start working on a feature, to see if it aligns with our goals.
We'll do our best to review and discuss changes with you but we're also humans with other activities, please be patient with us too.
The library is still in development, and while this is the case we adopt a fail-fast strategy, which is also a reason for the choice of the language.
The earlier we catch bugs and fix them, the less chances they have to confuse users of our library, or make end-users give up on software developed using this library. This also helps improving other software in the ecosystem.
To help with reviews, to facilitate reverts, reading and grepping through commit history, bisects: it is important for us that changes come in small and meaningful commits.
That is, don't bundle all the things in a single commit, if a change can be added via different commits standalone and still make sense, then it's probably a good candidate for splitting.
Do not forget to update changelogs and other crate metadata where necessary.
Signing commits (git commit -S) and adding DCO bits (git commit -s) are
welcome but not mandatory.
Code changes should include documentation. They should also include tests where appropriate, and pass the existing test suite.
CI should pass to submit your changes. This is done by ensuring cargo fmt and cargo test pass (in the workspace). Please run cargo fmt as part
of each of your commits.
More thorough tests can be done locally with act or forgejo-runner exec, which is also what is run in the CI. We require docker to be setup for
this to work.