iowo/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to iOwO

Before we get started, thank you for thinking about doing so!

Through an issue

• Be excellent to each other. Adhere to the code of conduct.
• About the title: If you had 5 seconds to tell someone the essence of the issue, what would it be?

Bugs

• Write out in detail which steps in which order are necessary to reproduce the bug.
• Include environmental information as well, in specific:
  • How did you install iOwO?
  • What version of iOwO are you running?
  • What operating system are you running? In the case of a Linux distro, mention the specific distro and when you last update as well.
• If the bug causes a crash, try to get a backtrace or in worse cases, a coredump.

Feature requests

• Be sure to include a motivation in which case your intended feature would be used even if it seems obvious to you.
• Estimate what would be needed to implement the feature:
  • Is it an addition to the language itself?
  • Is it just a new command?
  • Does it ground-breakingly change how iOwO works?

Through a PR

1. Clone the repo.
2. Switch to a new appropiately named branch for what you want to do, using git switch -c.
3. Implement your code changes with your favorite code editor.
4. Try them with cargo run.
5. If there are errors or warnings, go to step 3. Commit occasionally.
6. Otherwise,

• if you have an account at https://forge.katzen.cafe,
  1. fork the repo
  2. set it up as a remote using git remote add
  3. push using git push @ -u
• if you don't,
  1. combine your patches using git diff --patch and throw them in a file
  2. send that file to one of the maintainers per email
  • alongside with a description of what it does
  3. also mention in the mail that we should consider GitHub and GitLab mirrors, referring to this line

Tech stack

The techstack we operate on is

• typst for documents and concrete proposals
• Rust for the actual code

So if you want to contribute functionality, take a look at The Rust Programming Language book! If you want to contribute thoughts and technical designs, then consider taking a ride through typst's excellent tutorial!

For creative things, we suggest using whatever you are comfortable with. Otherwise, we suggest these:

• Inkscape, GIMP and Blender for promotional material like logos and posters
• Penpot for layouting prototypes and the like

Politics

• Current maintainers are defined as the entities listed in the code of conduct

PRs

• Every PR requires an approving review from a maintainer (that is not the author) before merge
• Maintainers can merge their own PRs
  • But only after approval

Major decisions

• All current maintainers have to agree unanimously.
• Agreement must be based on informed consent.
  • In effect, a maintainer has to understand what they agree to.

Interacting with PRs

Remember, be respectful. Entities invest their free time and motivation into making these changes, treat them appropiately.

• Since in iOwO, we mostly work based on forks, git's remotes work fairly good.
• Replace things in pointy brackets (<>) respectively (and remove the pointy brackets).

Initial steps for a new contributor or new local checkout

git remote add <contributor-name> https://forge.katzen.cafe/<contributor-account>/iowo.git
git remote update <contributor-name>

After setting up the remote

• You can repeat this step anytime you want to switch branches or update your local checkout.
• The PR branch is visible just below the PR title on Forgejo, after the colon (:).

git switch <pr-branch>
git pull