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Contributing to Invoke-Build

This is the summary for contributing code, documentation, testing, and filing issues. Please read it carefully to help making the code review process go as smoothly as possible and maximize the likelihood of your contribution being merged.

How to contribute

The preferred workflow for contributing to Invoke-Install is to fork the develop repository on GitHub, clone, and develop on a branch. Steps:

  1. Fork the project repository by clicking on the 'Fork' button near the top right of the page. This creates a copy of the code under your GitHub user account. For more details on how to fork a repository see this guide.

  2. Clone your fork of the Invoke-Install repo from your GitHub account to your local disk:

  3. Create a feature branch to hold your development changes:

    $ git checkout -b my-feature

    Always use a feature branch. It's good practice to never work on the master branch!

  4. Develop the feature on your feature branch. Add changed files using git add and then git commit files:

    $ git add modified_files
$ git commit

    to record your changes in Git, then push the changes to your GitHub account with:

    $ git push -u origin my-feature

  5. Follow these instructions to create a pull request from your fork. This will send an email to the committers.

(If any of the above seems like magic to you, please look up the Git documentation on the web, or ask a friend or another contributor for help.)

Pull Request Checklist

We recommend that your contribution complies with the following rules before you submit a pull request:

  • If your pull request addresses an issue, please use the pull request title to describe the issue and mention the issue number in the pull request description. This will make sure a link back to the original issue is created. Use "closes #PR-NUM" or "fixes #PR-NUM" to indicate github to automatically close the related issue. Use any other keyword (i.e: works on, related) to avoid github to close the referenced issue.

  • All public methods should have informative docstrings with sample usage presented as doctests when appropriate.

  • Please prefix the title of your pull request with [MRG] (Ready for Merge), if the contribution is complete and ready for a detailed review. Two core developers will review your code and change the prefix of the pull request to [MRG + 1] on approval, making it eligible for merging. An incomplete contribution -- where you expect to do more work before receiving a full review -- should be prefixed [WIP] (to indicate a work in progress) and changed to [MRG] when it matures. WIPs may be useful to: indicate you are working on something to avoid duplicated work, request broad review of functionality or API, or seek collaborators. WIPs often benefit from the inclusion of a task list in the PR description.

  • When adding additional functionality, provide at least one example script in the Examples/ folder. Have a look at other examples for reference. Examples should demonstrate why the new functionality is useful in practice.

Filing bugs

We use Github issues to track all bugs and feature requests; feel free to open an issue if you have found a bug or wish to see a feature implemented.

It is recommended to check that your issue complies with the following rules before submitting:

  • Verify that your issue is not being currently addressed by other issues or pull requests.

  • Please ensure all code snippets and error messages are formatted in appropriate code blocks. See Creating and highlighting code blocks.

  • Please include your operating system type version number, as well as your Powershell version.

$PSVersionTable
(Get-Module Invoke-Install).Version
  • please include a reproducible code snippet or link to a gist. If an exception is raised, please provide the traceback.

New contributor tips

A great way to start contributing to Invoke-Install is to pick an item from the list of Easy issues in the issue tracker. Resolving these issues allow you to start contributing to the project without much prior knowledge. Your assistance in this area will be greatly appreciated by the more experienced developers as it helps free up their time to concentrate on other issues.

Documentation

We are glad to accept any sort of documentation: function docstrings, reStructuredText documents (like this one), tutorials, etc. reStructuredText documents live in the source code repository under the Doc/ directory.