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Contributing to sciNote
We'd love to hear your feedback. sciNote was developed with the aim to be a collaborative open-source project, so please open new issues describing any bugs, feature requests or suggestions that you have.
DISCLAIMER: We firmly believe that our vision for the future of sciNote is the right one, therefore we reserve the right to accept OR reject any reported bugs and opened pull requests.
Non code-related feedback
This GitHub repository is a place to discuss sciNote source code. If you have any questions regarding usage of sciNote, tutorials, etc., please contact our support by sending an email to info@scinote.net.
If we receive a lot of similar feedback, we will try to provide better instructions / readme-s / tutorials.
Issue Reporting
For issue reporting, please visit our Jira page. It is an open source Jira that requires no sign-up (you can report issues as anonymous user). Detailed instructions about issue reporting are documented there.
Pull Requests
We will consider high quality pull requests.
Things to Keep in Mind
-
Whenever pull request requires additional work to be done on the client side (e.g. including a new Gem will requires calling of
make build
, adding database changes requiresrake db:migrate
task, ...), please specify that in the pull request description. -
Whenever implementing changes to the database layer, make sure to apply changes on the following locations:
- Code change/s inside
ActiveRecord
-s as needed, - Code database migrations that need to be:
- reversible - this can be done by using
up
anddown
methods.
- reversible - this can be done by using
- Fix model tests so they aren't potentially broken and (optionally) add new tests that will test the new functionality. Calling
rake test:models
must result in 0 errors & 0 failures. - (related to model tests) Fix the fixtures so they are in lieu with the database changes.
- Fix the fake seeding rake task - db_fake_data.rake, so it will auto-generate potential new changes.
- Fix the demo tutorial seeding method - first_time_data_generator.rb, so it will auto-generate potential new changes.
- When merging a database-related pull request, always make sure that schema.rb gets updated. This often means editing
schema.rb
by hand. Make sure all changes are persisted into this document, and that the schema version (ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: <version>)
) equals to the last migration in the application.
Contributor License Agreement (CLA)
In order to accept your pull request, we need you to submit a CLA. You only need to do this once. If you are submitting a pull request for the first time, just let us know that you have completed the CLA and we can cross-check with your GitHub username.