First off, thank you for considering contributing to ComboJSONAPI. It's people like you that make ComboJSONAPI such a great tool.
If you've noticed a bug or have a question that doesn't belong on the search the issue tracker to see if someone else in the community has already created a ticket. If not, go ahead and make one!
If this is something you think you can fix, then fork ComboJSONAPI and create a branch with a descriptive name.
A good branch name would be (where issue #325 is the ticket you're working on):
git checkout -b 325-add-japanese-translations
Make sure you're using a recent pytest
pytest -s -vv tests
- Ensure the bug was not already reported by searching all issues.
- If you're unable to find an open issue addressing the problem, open a new one. Be sure to include a title and clear description, as much relevant information as possible, and a code example or an executable test case demonstrating the expected behavior that is not occurring.
At this point, you're ready to make your changes! Feel free to ask for help; everyone is a beginner at first 😸
Your patch should follow the same conventions & pass the same code quality
checks as the rest of the project. flake8
will give you feedback in
this regard.
If your PR includes user-observable changes, you'll be asked to add a changelog entry following the existing changelog format.
The changelog format is the following:
- One line per PR describing your fix or enhancement.
- Entries end with a dot, followed by "[#pr-number] by [@github-username]".
- Entries are added under the "Unreleased" section at the top of the file, under the "Bug Fixes" or "Enhancements" subsection.
- References to github usernames and pull requests use shortcut reference links.
- Your github username reference definition is included in the correct alphabetical position at the bottom of the file.
At this point, you should switch back to your master branch and make sure it's up to date with ComboJSONAPI's master branch:
git remote add upstream [email protected]:AdCombo/ComboJSONAPI.git
git checkout master
git pull upstream master
Then update your feature branch from your local copy of master, and push it!
git checkout 325-add-japanese-translations
git rebase master
git push --set-upstream origin 325-add-japanese-translations
Finally, go to GitHub and make a Pull Request :D
If a maintainer asks you to "rebase" your PR, they're saying that a lot of code has changed, and that you need to update your branch so it's easier to merge.
To learn more about rebasing in Git, there are a lot of good resources but here's the suggested workflow:
git checkout 325-add-japanese-translations
git pull --rebase upstream master
git push --force-with-lease 325-add-japanese-translations
A PR can only be merged into master by a maintainer if it:
- passes CI;
- has been approved by at least two maintainers. If author is a maintainer who opened the PR, only one extra approval is needed;
- has no requested changes;
- is up to date with current master;
- has comments and commit messages written in English only.
Any maintainer is allowed to merge a PR if all of these conditions are met.
Maintainers need to do the following to push out a release:
- Make sure all pull requests are in and that changelog is current
- Update
version.rb
file and changelog with new version number - If it's not a patch level release, create a stable branch for that release, otherwise switch to the stable branch corresponding to the patch release you want to ship:
git checkout master
git fetch ComboJSONAPI
git rebase ComboJSONAPI/master
# If the release is 2.1.x then this should be: 2-1-stable
git checkout -b N-N-stable
git push ComboJSONAPI N-N-stable:N-N-stable