Your contributions to the Stellar network will help improve the world’s financial infrastructure, faster.
We want to make it as easy as possible to contribute changes that help the Stellar network grow and thrive. There are a few guidelines that we ask contributors to follow so that we can merge your changes quickly.
- Make sure you have a GitHub account
- Create a GitHub issue for your contribution, assuming one does not already exist.
- Clearly describe the issue including steps to reproduce if it is a bug.
- Fork the repository on GitHub
The first place to start is always looking over the current github issues for the project you are interested in contributing to. Issues marked with help wanted are usually pretty self contained and a good place to get started.
Stellar.org also uses these same github issues to keep track of what we are working on. If you see any issues that are assigned to a particular person or have the in progress label, that means someone is currently working on that issue. The orbit label means we will likely be working on this issue in the next week or two. The ready label means that the issue is one we have prioritized and will be working on in our next orbit (stellar term for sprint) or two.
Of course feel free to make your own issues if you think something needs to added or fixed.
- Create a topic branch from where you want to base your work.
- This is usually the master branch.
- Please avoid working directly on the
masterbranch.
- Make sure you have added the necessary tests for your changes and make sure all tests pass.
- Sign the Contributor License Agreement
- All content, comments, and pull requests must follow the Stellar Community Guidelines.
- Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
- Submit a pull request to the docs repository in the Stellar organization.
- Include a descriptive commit message.
- Changes contributed via pull request should focus on a single issue at a time.
- Rebase your local changes against the master branch. Resolve any conflicts that arise.
At this point you're waiting on us. We like to at least comment on pull requests within three business days (typically, one business day). We may suggest some changes, improvements or alternatives.
For small changes to comments and documentation, it is not always necessary to create a new GitHub issue. In this case, it is appropriate to start the first line of a commit with 'doc' instead of an issue number.
- Contributor License Agreement
- Explore the API
- #dev channel on Slack
- #stellar-dev IRC channel on freenode.org
This document is inspired by:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl_rails/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md