We welcome contributions in several forms, for instance:
- Documenting
- Testing / Bug reports
- Coding
- etc.
Please read 14 Ways to Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius or a Rock Star.
All commits must be signed-off by their author when contributing.
When signing-off a patch for this project like this
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
using your real name (no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions), you declare the following:
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and
I have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
We appreciate any contributions, so please use the Forking
Workflow
and send us Merge Requests.
Commit messages shall follow the conventions defined by conventional commits.
HINT: A good way to create commit messages is by using the tool
git gui.
In most cases the changed component is a good choice as scope e.g. if the change is done in the documentation, the scope should be doc.
For documentation changes the section that was changed makes a good scope name e.g. use FAQ if you changed that section.