Gitpay is an open-source platform that facilitates collaboration and rewards contributions by enabling users to complete issues for open-source projects.

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We have a Slack channel where you can collaborate with other people who are using Gitpay and work together to find solutions. Feel free to join the community and hang out on Slack with us.

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What is Gitpay?

Gitpay is an open-source platform that empowers collaboration and rewards contributions to open-source projects. With Gitpay, you can complete tasks from anywhere in the world with open collaboration and receive bounties for completing them. Likewise, companies can receive reports, fixes, and enhancements from developers and offer bounties for completing requirements.

Who is contributing?

This project has been made possible thanks to all the amazing people contributing their time and effort into making Gitpay better. You can also start contributing to the project and join the community by contributing to Gitpay on GitHub or join our team on GitHub first.

Join the Gitpay team on GitHub

Requirements

To contribute to Gitpay, you will need the following:

• Node.js (currently at v17.3.0)
• React with webpack

Running Tests

To run the tests, use the following commands:

npm run migrate-test (first time)

npm run test (to run the tests)

Setup Environment

To ensure full integration with the API services used by the platform, you will need the API keys. You should make a copy of your .env.example file and rename it to .env with the right credentials. Please let me know if you need any of these credentials to solve an issue (mail tarefas@gitpay.me).

You can do this with: cp .env.example .env

You need to run create the .env in order to run the project: cp .env.example .env

Important

• Make sure to use Node v17 (you can use Node Version Manager (NVM) to manage and switch different Node versions)
• Don't forget to run npm install on the root and front-end folders

Database

Install Postgres (Mac)

1. Install by running the following command: brew install postgres
2. Start the command service by running the following command: brew services start postgresql
3. Create a postgres user by running the following command: createuser postgres -s
4. Login into the Postgres cli with by running the following command: psql -U postgres
5. Create a test database by typing the following command: create database gitpay_test;
6. Create a dev database by running the following command: create database gitpay_dev;
7. Run this command to exit: \q

Install PostgreSQL (Linux - Ubuntu)

1. Install by running the following command: sudo apt install postgresql
2. Start the command service by running the following command: sudo service postgresql start
3. Create a postgres user by running the following command: createuser postgres -s
4. Login into the Postgres cli with by running the following command: sudo -i -u postgres
5. Access the Postgres prompt by running the following command: psql
6. Make sure the Postgres user has the correct password by typing the following command: ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres';
7. Create a test database by running the following command: CREATE DATABASE gitpay_test;
8. Create a dev database by running the following command: CREATE DATABASE gitpay_dev;
9. To finally exit, type the following command: \q

Install PostgreSQL (Windows)

1. Download: access https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads and download the exe file for windows;
2. Install: proceed the installation with the postgreSQL setup wizard; once it is requested to provide a password for the database superuser, type postgres.
3. Login into postgres: psql -U postgres
4. Make sure postgres user has the correct password: ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'postgres';
5. Create test database: CREATE DATABASE gitpay_test;
6. Create a dev database: CREATE DATABASE gitpay_dev;
7. Exit: \q

Run migration

To run the migrations

npm run migrate

To create a new migration

sequelize migration:create --name modelname

How to create new models

• For Many to Many
  1. Create migration for first model (table organizations)
  2. Create migration for second model (table projects)
  3. Create migration for joint model (table organizations_projects)
  4. Change in the model to Project.belongsTo(models.Organization)
  5. Change in the second model to Organization.hasMany(models.Project)

Database seeding

For more information related to database seeding please refer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_seeding

To seed the database

npm run seed

For test environment

npm run seed-test

For exhaustive list of options available, refer migration.js in root directory

For windows users:

• install cross-env
• run npm run seed:windows and npm run seed-test:windows

Run project

Frontend server

• first go to frontend folder: cd frontend
• Then run the server: npm run dev

Backend (node.js)

npm run start:dev

Then you can access at http://localhost:8082

Activating user account locally

When you run your backend node server, the e-mail notifications will output in your console, so when setup a new user, you should look for the activation link:

 ----- email / subject ----
alexandre+contributor7@gitpay.me
Activate your account
 ----- end email ----
 ----- email content ----
[
  {
    type: 'text/html',
    value: '<p>Hi Contrib7,</p><p>Click <a href="[ACTIVATION LINK]">here</a> to activate your account.</p>\n' +
      '          \n' +
      '\n' +
      '<p>\n' +
      'Thanks, <br />\n' +
      'Gitpay Team\n' +
      '</p>\n' +
      '----------------------\n' +
      '\n' +
      '<p>\n' +
      'https://gitpay.me (Web) <br />\n' +
      'tarefas@gitpay.me (Email) <br />\n' +
      'Worknenjoy Inc.,\n' +
      '9450 SW Gemini Dr\n' +
      'PMB 72684\n' +
      'Beaverton, Oregon 97008-7105 US (Mail) <br />\n' +
      '</p>\n'
  }
]
 ----- end email content ----

You will find the activation link on the e-mail example, copy and paste in your browser to activate your user locally.

Translation

Please don't change the translation files directly, they will be managed on Crowdin. The only thing you need to do is run

npm run translate

on front-end and use the React Intl (https://formatjs.io/docs/react-intl/) library to give id and default text to your strings.

Docker

Requirements

• Docker Engine
• Docker Compose

Linux

Ubuntu

Installing

• Docker Engine: https://docs.docker.com/install/linux/docker-ce/ubuntu/
• Docker Compose: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Arch Linux / Manjaro / Antergos

Installing

• Docker and Docker Compose: sudo pacman -S docker docker-compose

Running

Development environment

• Run docker-compose up Then you can access at http://localhost:8082

Test environment

• Run docker-compose -f docker-compose.test.yml up

First timers

Here you can start to learn how to create your first pull request and start to be a contributor: #247

• saip007
• Unnatii
• Prerna Verma
• I Gede Wicaksana
• Luísa Barros
• Caio Reis
• Shivam Latawa
• Md. Al Amin
• Siso
• Amrut
• Usman Sakirat Kehinde
• Qiwei
• Adam Ash
• Shawn Noruzi
• Ssentongo Alex
• Tushar Kudal
• Onamade Okikioluwa
• Basukinath Tiwari
• Paulo Henrique

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Individuals

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License

This project is licensed under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Please review the license terms and conditions for details.