Thanks for taking your time to help the project.
This should be as easy as possible for you but there are a few things to consider when contributing. The following guidelines for contribution should be followed if you want to submit a pull request.
- You need a GitHub account.
- Submit an issue ticket here,
for your issue if there is no one yet.
- Describe the issue, if it's a Bug or Feature/Improvement.
- If it's bug provide details steps to reproduce it.
- If you want to work on fixing the issue, fork the repository on GitHub.
- In your forked repository, create a topic branch for your upcoming
patch. (e.g.
feature/new-panel
orbug/no-logs
)- Usually this is based on the
master
branch. - Create a branch based on master
git branch bug/no-logs master
then checkout the new branch withgit checkout bug/no-logs
. Please avoid working directly on themaster
branch.
- Usually this is based on the
- Make commits of logical units and describe them properly.
- Assure nothing is broken by running the application and chacking it's all features.
- Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
- Open a pull request to the original repository and choose the right original branch you want to patch.
- If not done in commit messages (which you really should do) please reference and update your issue with the code changes. But please DO NOT close the issue yourself.
- Even if you have write access to the repository, do not directly push or merge pull-requests. Let another team member review your pull request and approve.