Contributing to the Development of Naomi
The Repositories
Naomi as a whole is broken into different Repos depending on what it pretains.
- Naomi Base: This repo contains the base Naomi program.
- Naomi Plugins: Plugins for Naomi. They cannot be used with a Jasper 1.x instance, since they provide features that the old runtime does not support.
- Naomi Docs: This repository contains the documentation for Naomi | Master branch is updated per stable releases from the Dev branch which is where day to day changes take place!
- Naomi Website: This repository contains the final artifacts from which the project website is served.
Contribution Guidelines
Pull Requests are Always Welcome
We are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them as fast as possible. Not sure if that typo is worth a pull request? Do it! We will appreciate it.
If your pull request is not accepted instantly, don't be discouraged! If there's a problem with the implementation, hopefully you received feedback on what to improve.
We're trying very hard to keep Naomi lean and focused. We don't want it to do everything for everybody. This means that we might decide against incorporating a new feature. However, there might be a way to implement that feature on top of Naomi.
Discuss your Design on the Mailing List
We recommend discussing your plans in the discussion forum before starting to code - especially for more ambitious contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right direction, give feedback on your concept, and maybe point out if someone else is working on the same thing.
Create Issues
Any significant improvement should be documented as a GitHub issue in the appropriate repository before anybody starts working on it.
...but Check for Existing Issues First
Please take a moment to check that an issue doesn't already exist documenting your bug report or improvement proposal. If it does, it never hurts to add a quick "+1" or "I have this problem too". This will help prioritize the most common problems and requests.
Conventions
Fork the repo and make changes on your fork in a feature branch:
- If it's a bugfix branch, name it XXX-something where XXX is the number of the issue
- If it's a feature branch, create an enhancement issue to announce your intentions, and name it XXX-something where XXX is the number of the issue.
Submit unit tests for your changes. Naomi has a great test framework built in; use it! Take a look at existing tests for inspiration. Run the full test suite on your branch before submitting a pull request.
Update the documentation when creating or modifying features. Test your documentation changes for clarity, concision, and correctness, as well as a clean documentation build.
Write clean code. Universally formatted code promotes ease of writing, reading, and maintenance.
Pull requests descriptions should be as clear as possible and include a reference to all the issues that they address.
Pull requests must not contain commits from other users or branches.
Commit messages must start with a capitalized and short summary (max. 50 chars) written in the imperative, followed by an optional, more detailed explanatory text which is separated from the summary by an empty line.
Code review comments may be added to your pull request. Discuss, then make the suggested modifications and push additional commits to your feature branch. Be sure to post a comment after pushing. The new commits will show up in the pull request automatically, but the reviewers will not be notified unless you comment.
Before the pull request is merged, make sure that you squash your commits into
logical units of work using git rebase -i and git push -f. After every
commit the test suite should be passing. Include documentation changes in the
same commit so that a revert would remove all traces of the feature or fix.
Commits that fix or close an issue should include a reference like Closes #XXX
or Fixes #XXX, which will automatically close the issue when merged.
Merge Approval
Naomi maintainers use the Github review feature to indicate acceptance.
A change requires approval from an absolute majority of the maintainers of each
component affected. For example, if a change affects plugins/ and features/, it
needs an absolute majority from the maintainers of plugins/ AND, separately, an
absolute majority of the maintainers of features/.
Sign your Work
The repos are setup to ask for a CLA sign-off when creating a pull request for the first time. This certifies that you wrote code or otherwise have the right to pass code on as an open-source patch. The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the below (from developercertificate.org):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
This is done by clicking the link on the CLAassitants comment on your pull request, signing in to the site using your github account, and then filling out the form.
You MUST your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.) as well as an e-mail address under which you can be reached (sorry, no github noreply e-mail addresses (such as username@users.noreply.github.com) or other non-reachable addresses are allowed).
Note: If this is not followed your contribution will be rejected.
If your pull request contains code from others as well, each party has to accept the CLA.
How can I Become a Maintainer
- Step 1: learn the program inside & out
- Step 2: make yourself useful by contributing code, bugfixes, support, etc.
- Step 3: volunteer in the community
Don't forget: being a maintainer is a time investment. Make sure you will have time to make yourself available. You don't have to be a maintainer to make a difference on the project!
Community Guidelines
We want to keep the Naomi community awesome, growing and collaborative. We need your help to keep it that way. To help with this we've come up with some general guidelines for the community as a whole:
Be nice: Be courteous, respectful and polite to fellow community members: no regional, racial, gender, or other abuse will be tolerated. We like nice people way better than mean ones!
Encourage diversity and participation: Make everyone in our community feel welcome, regardless of their background and the extent of their contributions, and do everything possible to encourage participation in our community.
Keep it legal: Basically, don't get us in trouble. Share only content that you own, do not share private or sensitive information, and don't break the law.
Stay on topic: Make sure that you are posting to the correct channel and avoid off-topic discussions. Remember when you update an issue or respond to an email you are potentially sending to a large number of people. Please consider this before you update. Also remember that nobody likes spam.