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# Contributing to GNU social
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First of all, if you're reading this intending to contribute to GNU social,
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thanks! Free software development only happens when people like you take an
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interest in giving back to the software they themselves use, and their
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community.
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When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to
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make via issue, email, or any other method with the owners of this repository before
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making a change.
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There's a few files you should read before going forward with a merge request
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or a patch submission. They detail what this file touches on in brief. They
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are:
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* `DOCUMENTATION/DEVELOPERS/CONTRIBUTING/coding_standards.md`: How your code should be structured and formatted to be
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accepted into the GNU social codebase.
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* `/DOCUMENTATION/DEVELOPERS/CONTRIBUTING/merge_request_checklist.md`: A quick checklist to review before submission.
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## Merge Request Process
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1. Ensure you strip any trailing spaces off and checked the file with php-cs-fixer
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2. Increase the version numbers in any examples files and the README.md to the new version that this
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Pull Request would represent. The versioning scheme we use is [SemVer](http://semver.org/).
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3. You may merge the Pull Request in once you have the sign-off of two other developers, or if you
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do not have permission to do that, you may request the second reviewer to merge it for you.
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## Coding Standards
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Since we will be expected to maintain your code once it's submitted, we ask you
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to adhere to certain coding standards that make it easier for us to do so. If
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code doesn't follow them, it will be rejected, so please read up on these.
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## Bug Reports
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Please report bugs to the issue tracker at
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<https://notabug.org/diogo/gnu-social/issues> Avoid assigning the labels
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yourself, as these are for the development team to assign priority and area of
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coverage to a subject. Please only submit something here if you are certain it
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is a bug or represents a feature enhancement that we do not presently have. If
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you are uncertain whether it's a bug, please feel free to ask
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at #social IRC channel on freenode.net https://www.freenode.net/.
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When reporting a bug, please try to include as much information as possible,
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including the environment being run on (if it's a common LAMP stack just give
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us version numbers of the main stack components, that's fine), and the specific
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error you get. If you do not get a client-facing error, please check the PHP
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error_log and ensure there isn't something silently reported there, as well as
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the GNU social log. Try to include steps to reproduce the error as well, as if
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we cannot reproduce the error, we can't fix it!
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It is perfectly acceptable to reference the archive page of a discussion on the
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mailing list for the bug report, by the way, as long as it includes all the
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information we need for a bug report.
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## Submitting Feature Requests / Enhancement Requests
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Social media is constantly evolving, and we welcome ideas about how we can
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change and evolve GNU social to keep it the excellent piece of software that it
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is. However, there are a few things we ask you do when submitting feature
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requests:
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1. Understand that since we have a limited amount of developers and these people
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contribute in their free time, we may prioritize things differently than you
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value them. Oftentimes this is because certain requests involve less changes
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to the existing codebase than others, and therefore this makes them easier
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to add.
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2. Please search the existing feature requests and enhancements to see if a
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similar request exists. If one does but you have different ideas about how
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to do it or what it should entail, please add a comment to the existing idea
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rather than create a new one for your "version" of it. Duplicate submissions
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mean we spend more time maintaining the tracker and less time actually
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working on the codebase!
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3. When outlining the way that you see something working, don't be afraid to be
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as detailed as possible! We may not implement it exactly as you describe for
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any variety of reasons, but the more concrete and fleshed out an idea is, the
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easier it is for us to know what you want and be able to implement it in a
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sane and secure fashion.
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4. When describing a possible new idea and its mechanisms of operation, the key
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words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD",
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"SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in the issue submission
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are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
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<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119>
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Finally, and just as a call back to the first point, realize just because we
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might not rush to implement something, doesn't mean that we don't want to
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implement it! We would rather take the time to do something right the first
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time, then hurriedly apply a new idea, or a fix, only to have to patch it later.
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## Branch of Code Submissions
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Unless you've been specifically directed otherwise, all submissions of code
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should be against the `nightly` branch, so make sure any modifications are based
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on Nightly.
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## Copyright / Licensing
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You acknowledge that by submitting code to GNU social, you are licensing it under
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the GNU AGPLv3 unless there is an extenuating circumstance where it would be
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licensed differently (such as modifications to an external library we include
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such as Stomp).
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You also acknowledge that unless you assign a copyright explicitly, it will be
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assumed to be assigned to GNU social.
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Thanks for considering submission, and happy hacking!
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