Massimo, Niphlod
 can we add those instructions to the book? A chapter "Contributing to
web2py" can be helpful, don't you think?



2013/9/27 Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com>

> in addition to joining the developers group, there are some (absolutely
> not required, but good to have) main ideas to follow (it's how currently
> most of contributors are dealing with PR):
> - github is preferred for their PR system
> - make your patch on a topic branch against current master trunk
> - it should be a patch that can be fast-forwarded (i.e. merged
> automatically in current master)
> - composed of a single commit (unless the patch is long and needs specific
> commit "comments" to track it later)
> - commit message **should** include a "thanks to @someone" if it was
> someone else that pointed out the bug or raised the request for the feature
> - if the commit contains a new feature it should come with the relative
> tests (unittest in gluon/tests)
>
> I have another one, but it seems that I'm the only one (would be good if
> we agree on something consistent):
> - every bug-fixing commit should come from a branch named
> "issue/number_of_the_issue_on_google_code" (like issue/1684)
> - every enhancement commit should come in a branch named
> "enhancement/title_of_the_enhancement" (like enhancement/trapped_links)
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, September 27, 2013 5:43:51 PM UTC+2, Ricardo Cárdenas wrote:
>>
>> (Apologies if this has been asked before.)
>>
>> Kudos for web2py and for this community; happy to have found you.
>> Web2py's very useful for my projects; even enjoyable!
>>
>> I'd like to pay it back, starting with minor patches that I think could
>> be useful to others. I can fork and watch on github, and generate PRs,
>> but... Is there a document with guidelines on doing so? (I don't mean
>> github instructions, more like "what you are looking for in good PRs") I
>> saw reference to an agreement that should be signed? Mailing lists one can
>> join to get the hang of etiquette and how the devs currently manage the
>> process?
>>
>> best regards -Ricardo
>>
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