Contributions are gladly accepted, either through GitHub pull requests or by
mailing patches to [email protected] (PGP key 8569B6311EE485F8).
By contributing, you are agreeing to make your contribution available under the same license terms as the rest of the project.
Contributions of feature code, test code, documentation, bug reports, etc. are all appreciated, and I’d be happy to help guide you through the process if you have any questions.
Outstanding work for the project is tracked with GitHub’s “Issues” feature. You can see the current list of open issues here. This covers all of bugs, feature requests, documentation improvements, and any other kind of enhancement.
If you encounter any problems with the software, or would like it to be improved
in some way, please feel free to file a new GitHub Issue or send a report by
email to [email protected]. The more detail you can provide, the better.
If you’d like to contribute to the project, the issue tracker is also the place to start. Please indicate your interest in addressing the issue by leaving a comment, potentially describing at a high level what you intend to do. This helps avoid duplication of work when two people silently work on the same problem, and also needless churn that can arise if the implementation you submit is surprising to the parties interested in the issue and hasn’t been explained in advance. If there is no issue already open for the work you’d like to do, please create one.
Issues in the GitHub tracker are categorized with “labels”. These mostly describe what kind of work the issue covers (e.g. there are labels for “infrastructure”, “documentation”, “feature”, “bug”…).
Of particular note, however, is the “good-first-bug” label. Issues tagged in this way are believed to be especially suitable for new contributors (whether to the project, or to Rust code, or to Free Software/Open Source in general). Anyone is welcome to work on any issue, but if you’re unsure about how to get going, that may be the place to start.
To get started on making a code contribution, you’ll first need to set up your
development environment. For instructions, consult the SETUP file.
The code for this project is primarily meant to be used with the current Stable version of Rust. However, we do want to try to keep it functional under Beta, Nightly, and some older releases — on a best-effort basis.
If you encounter issues with one of these versions, or would like to test to ensure your changes are compatible with them, you’ll need a way to easily switch between Rust releases. The best tool for this is rustup.
After installation, you can switch versions by running commands like rustup update beta && rustup default beta (substituting the version you want in place
of beta). Remember to switch back after you’re done!
The copyright to any contribution to this software project is retained by the original author of the contribution. However, by contributing, you are agreeing to make your contribution available as part of this project under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 of the License, or any later version).
Please refer to the LICENSE file for a full copy of the license.