Thank you for investing your time in contributing to our projects!
Read our Code of Conduct to keep our community approachable and respectable.
In this guide you will get an overview of the contribution workflow from opening an issue, creating a PR, reviewing, and merging the PR.
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To get an overview of the project, read the README. Here are some resources to help you get started with open source contributions:
- Finding ways to contribute to open source on GitHub
- Set up Git
- GitHub flow
- Collaborating with pull requests
In addition to the general guides with open source contributions, you would also need to:
- Have basic knowledge about INI configuration format and programming in Go.
- Have a working local development setup with a reasonable good IDE or editor like Visual Studio Code, GoLand or Vim.
- Check to make sure someone hasn't already opened a similar issue.
- If a similar issue doesn't exist, open a new issue using a relevant issue form.
- Scan through our existing issues to find one that interests you.
- The good first issue is a good place to start exploring issues that are well-groomed for newcomers.
- Do not hesitate to ask for more details or clarifying questions on the issue!
- Communicate on the issue you are intended to pick up before starting working on it.
- Every issue that gets picked up will have an expected timeline for the implementation, the issue may be reassigned after the expected timeline. Please be responsible and proactive on the communication 🙇♂️
When you're finished with the changes, create a pull request, or a series of pull requests if necessary.
Contributing to another codebase is not as simple as code changes, it is also about contributing influence to the design. Therefore, we kindly ask you that:
- Please acknowledge that no pull request is guaranteed to be merged.
- Please always do a self-review before requesting reviews from others.
- Please expect code review to be strict and may have multiple rounds.
- Please make self-contained incremental changes, pull requests with huge diff may be rejected for review.
- Please use English in code comments and docstring.
- Please do not force push unless absolutely necessary. Force pushes make review much harder in multiple rounds, and we use Squash and merge so you don't need to worry about messy commits and just focus on the changes.
Congratulations 🎉🎉 Thanks again for taking the effort to have this journey with us 🌟