CONTRIBUTING.md

This is a GeoSolutions project. By contributing you agree to abide by the Contributor Code of Conduct and follow the guidelines.

Contribute to Django MapStore2 Adapter

Thanks for your interest, we love contributions!

1. Getting Involved
2. Reporting Bugs
3. Contributing Code
4. Improving Documentation

Getting Involved

There are several ways you can contribute to MapStore 2 development. If you are a developer, you can contribute new features and bug fixes, using pull requests. But you can also help by discovering and reporting bugs; improving documentation; helping others on the MapStore users mailing list and GitHub issues.

Reporting Bugs

Before reporting a bug on the project's issues page, first make sure that your issue is caused by MapStore 2, not your application code (e.g. passing incorrect arguments to methods, etc.). Second, search the already reported issues for similar cases, and if it's already reported, just add any additional details in the comments.

After you've made sure that you've found a new MapStore 2 bug, here are some tips for creating a helpful report that will make fixing it much easier and quicker:

• Write a descriptive, specific title. Bad: Map does not show. Good: Doing X in IE9 causes Z.
• Include browser, OS and MapStore 2 version info in the description.
• Create a simple test case that demonstrates the bug (e.g. using JSFiddle or JS Bin).
• Check whether the bug can be reproduced in other browsers.
• Check if the bug occurs in the stable version, master, or both.
• Bonus tip: if the bug only appears in the master version but the stable version is fine, use git bisect to find the exact commit that introduced the bug.

If you just want some help with your project, try asking on the MapStore users mailing list instead.

Contributing Code

Considerations for Accepting Patches

While we happily accept patches, we're also committed to quality. So bugfixes, performance optimizations and small improvements that don't add a lot of code are much more likely to get accepted quickly.

Before sending a pull request with a new feature, check if it's been discussed before already (either on GitHub issues or on the MapStore developers mailing list), and ask yourself two questions:

1. Are you sure that this new feature is important enough to justify its presence in the MapStore 2 core? Or will it look better as a plugin in a separate repository?
2. Is it written in a simple, concise way that doesn't add bulk to the codebase?

If your feature did get merged into master, please consider submitting another pull request with the corresponding documentation update.

Making Changes to MapStore 2 Source

If you're not yet familiar with the way GitHub works (forking, pull requests, etc.), be sure to check out the awesome article about forking on the GitHub Help website — it will get you started quickly.

You should always write each batch of changes (feature, bugfix, etc.) in its own topic branch. Please do not commit to the master branch, or your unrelated changes will go into the same pull request.

Pull request guidelines

Your pull request must:

• Follow MapStore 2's coding style.

• Pass the integration tests run automatically by the Travis Continuous Integration system.

• Address a single issue or add a single item of functionality. (Start the pull request title with the addressed issues if in case)

• Contain a clean history of small, incremental, logically separate commits, with no merge commits.

• Use clear commit messages.

• Be possible to merge automatically.

Pass the integration tests run automatically by the Travis CI system

The integration tests contain a number of automated checks to ensure that the code follows the MapStore 2 style and does not break tests or examples. You can run the integration tests locally using the test target.

Address a single issue or add a single item of functionality

Please submit separate pull requests for separate issues. This allows each to be reviewed on its own merits.

Contain a clean history of small, incremental, logically separate commits, with no merge commits

The commit history explains to the reviewer the series of modifications to the code that you have made and breaks the overall contribution into a series of easily-understandable chunks. Any individual commit should not add more than one new class or one new function. Do not submit commits that change thousands of lines or that contain more than one distinct logical change. Trivial commits, e.g. to fix lint errors, should be merged into the commit that introduced the error. See the Atomic Commit Convention on Wikipedia for more detail.

git apply --patch and git rebase can help you create a clean commit history. Reviewboard.org and Pro GIT have explain how to use them.

Use clear commit messages

Commit messages should be short, begin with a verb in the imperative, and contain no trailing punctuation. We follow http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html for the formatting of commit messages.

Git commit message should look like:

Header line: explaining the commit in one line

Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things
in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue
being fixed, etc etc.

The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and
please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about
74 characters or so. That way "git log" will show things
nicely even when it's indented.

Further paragraphs come after blank lines.

Please keep the header line short, no more than 50 characters.

Be possible to merge automatically

Occasionally other changes to master might mean that your pull request cannot be merged automatically. In this case you may need to rebase your branch on a more recent master, resolve any conflicts, and git push --force to update your branch so that it can be merged automatically.

Improving Documentation

TBD

Thank You

At the end, however you decide to contribute to the project, your help is very welcome and we would like to thank you for doing it.