Wow, thanks for your interest in helping out with Pedestal. Let this document serve as your guide.
If you're looking for a task to work on, check out the primed label in our issues.
Less defined tasks will be marked with the discuss label. Jump in here if you want to be a part of something big.
Pedestal is the thinking persons framework, so every contribution starts with some deeeep thought. Finished?
Alright, your next step is to start a discussion.
Create an issue to start a conversation. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish and how you think you might do it. If all is well, we'll probably give you the 👍 to start developing.
Of course, if you run into any straight-up bugs or weirdness feel free to skip the thinking (or at least too much of it) and immediately submit an issue.
At minimum include details about the platform you are running and steps to reproduce--you know we're going to ask. A good starting point is the following:
- Operating System (including version).
- e.g. "OS X 10.8"
- Your current Leiningen version (
lein --version)- e.g. "Leiningen 2.0.0 on Java 1.6.0_45 Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM"
- Pedestal version
- e.g. "0.1.6"
- or, for a SNAPSHOT: "0.1.6-SNAPSHOT at 57d4911"
- Steps to reproduce:
- e.g. "When you create a new pedestal app, and do X, Y and Z you will see this error: ..."
Even better, include a link to a gist or repository where we can jump straight to the problem.
We love well-tested code. All of our code is tested on Travis CI and so too will any pull requests you submit. It's super-cool and automatic!
But lets be serious, we won't accept pull requests unless they're either well tested or sufficiently trivial (think docstring changes).
When it comes to code contributions there is one more thing we need from you: a signed contributor's agreement.
We know that a contributor's agreement can be a pain, but we want everyone to be able to use Pedestal, including developers working on projects for very large companies. Many of these big organizations care a lot about the provenance of the code they use -- that is they need to know where the code came from and who owns it. The contributor's agreement simply puts down in writing what we think is the standard open source arrangement: Mostly it says that you are donating code that you wrote to the project. By submitting a signed contributor's agreement, you are helping to ensure that your work will be available to the largest possible audience.
It is an extra step, but there really is not much to executing the Pedestal contributor's agreement: You just need to complete the following online agreement to assign copyright to Cognitect.