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Contributing

Welcome and thanks that you want to contribute to the Trustlines Project. We appreciate all help, depending on your knowledge, this can be spreading the word, helping with documentation, reporting issues or even contributing to the source code.

Feel free to checkout the code, play around with it and run the tests. Before making a change, please first discuss the change via opening an issue on this repository. If you just need some small question answered, you can also reach out to us via our gitter chat.

Open an issue

To request a feature or report a bug, please open an issue on the issue tracker in github.

Report a bug

Please include a short description of the problem, including what you expected to happen and what did happen instead. Please also include the version of the relay you were using, your operating system and the used configuration.

Request a feature

Please include a description of what you would like to see implemented and an explanation of why you believe this would be a good addition.

Open a pull request

Before starting

  • Follow the readme to setup you dev environment.
  • Ensure that you can run the tests and that they pass. The tests can be run from the root with make test

To include

  • For a bug fix:
    • Add a test that makes the bug explicit, and make sure that the test fails
    • Fix the bug, so that the test passes
  • For a new feature:
    • Add a test, that demonstrate the new feature.
    • Add or update related documentation if necessary.
  • Add an entry to the unreleased section of the adequate changelog for the bridge or chain component.
  • Format your code changes with black. If you setup pre-commit, this will happen automatically on commit.
  • Check your code with flake8 and mypy. If you setup pre-commit, this will happen automatically on commit.

Changelog

We loosely follow keep a changelog. We only keep a changelog for each chain, tlbc, and Laika as well as for the bridge.

Add a new entry for every version with version number and release date. All changes should start and should be grouped by one of the following keywords:

  • Add: For new features that were added.
  • Change: For changes in existing functionality.
  • Deprecate: For already released features which will be removed.
  • Remove: For removed features.
  • Fix: For bug fixes.
  • Security: For security relevant changes. Please also add the marker BREAKING in case of a breaking change. For the non released changes we keep an unreleased section on top.

Commit messages

We loosely follow How to write a git commit message Please fulfill at least these important criteria.

  • Add a subject line that summarizes what was done
    • Limit the subject to 50 characters
    • Separate the subject from the body with a blank line
    • Capitalize the subject line
    • Use the imperative mood
    • Do not end the subject with a period.
  • Add a body if necessary to describe what was changed and why this change was necessary.
    • Wrap the body at 72 characters.
    • Feel free to link resources via absolute link or issues via #<number> wherever necessary at the end.

Sometimes a good chosen subject line is enough, but please think about if it is really obvious why this change is necessary or if some explanation would help.