Thank you for considering making contributions to the Umee network! 🌟
Contributing to this repo can mean many things such as participating in discussions or proposing new features, improvements or bug fixes. To ensure a smooth and timely workflow for all contributors, the general procedure for contributing has been established:
- If you would like to contribute, first do your best to check if discussions already exist as either a Github Discussion, Issue or PR. Be sure to also check out our public Discord. Existing discussions will help you gain context on the current status of the proposed contribution or topic. If one does not exist, feel free to start one.
- If you would like to create a Github Issue, either open or find an issue you'd like to help with. If the issue already exists, attempt to participate in thoughtful discussion on that issue.
- If you would like to contribute:
- If the issue is a proposal, ensure that the proposal has been discussed and accepted.
- Ensure that nobody else has already begun working on this issue. If they have, make sure to contact them to potentially collaborate.
- If nobody has been assigned for the issue and you would like to work on it, make a comment on the issue to inform the community of your intentions to begin work.
- Follow standard GitHub best practices, i.e. fork the repo, branch from the
HEAD of
main
, make commits, and submit a PR tomain
- For core developers working within the repo, to ensure a clear ownership
of branches, branches must be named with the convention
{moniker}/{issue#}-branch-name
.
- For core developers working within the repo, to ensure a clear ownership
of branches, branches must be named with the convention
- Be sure to submit the PR in
Draft
mode. Submit your PR early, even if it's incomplete as this indicates to the community you're working on something and allows them to provide comments early in the development process. - When the code is complete it can be marked
Ready for Review
and follow the PR readiness checklist.
We follow the Cosmos SDK Coding Guidelines. Specifically:
- API & Design SHOULD be proposed and reviewed before the main implementaion.
- Minimize code duplication
- Define Acceptance tests or while implementing new features.
When proposing a design decision for the Umee network, please start by opening an Issue or a Discussion with a summary of the proposal.
Once the proposal has been discussed and there is rough alignment on a high-level approach to the design, a design doc can be drafted in a dedicated pull request. We are following this process to ensure all involved parties are in agreement before any party begins coding the proposed implementation.
The Umee network repo adheres to the trunk based development branching model and utilizes semantic versioning.
Ensure that you base and target your PR against the main
branch.
All feature additions should be targeted against main
. Bug fixes for an
outstanding release candidate should be targeted against the release candidate
branch.
- Ensure the PR branch is rebased on
main
. - Ensure you provided unit tests and integration tests.
- Run
make test-unit test-e2e
to ensure that all tests pass. - Merge the PR!
We follow Semantic Versioning (from v3.0.0):
- major version update (eg 2.x.x -> 3.0.0) has API breaking changes or signals major feature update
- minor version update (eg 2.1.x -> 2.2.0) has no API nor state machine breaking changes. It can provide new functionality or bug fixes.
- patch version update (eg 2.1.0 -> 2.1.1) has no API nor state machine breaking changes nor new features. It only contains backwards compatible bug fixes.
All major changes related to major version update are first released for testnet. We use -betaX
(eg 2.0.0-beta1
, 2.0.0-beta2
...) releases for testnet. Once the code is stabilized we create a release candidate (eg 2.0.0-rc1
). If no issues are found the latest release candidate become the major release.