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Contributing to Technical-NGO

👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍

The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to Technical-NGO and its projects, which are hosted in the Technical-NGO Organization on GitHub. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.

Table Of Contents

Code of Conduct

I don't want to read this whole thing, I just have a question!!!

What should I know before I get started?

How Can I Contribute?

Styleguides

Additional Notes

Code of Conduct

This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Technical-NGO Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

I don't want to read this whole thing I just have a question!!!

Note: Please don't file an issue to ask a question. You'll get faster results by using the resources below.

If chat is more your speed, you can join the Technical-NGO Slack team:

  • Join the Technical-NGO/Technical-NGO.github.io Slack Team
    • Even though Slack is a chat service, sometimes it takes several hours for community members to respond — please be patient!
    • Use the #general channel for general questions or discussion about Technical-NGO
    • Use the #technical channel for technical questions
    • Use the #ideas channel for suggestions and ideas
    • There are many other channels available, check the channel list

What should I know before I get started?

How Can I Contribute?

Reporting Bugs

This section guides you through submitting a bug report for Technical-NGO/Technical-NGO.github.io. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your report 📝, reproduce the behavior 💻 💻, and find related reports 🔎.

Before creating bug reports, please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating a bug report, please include as many details as possible. Fill out the required template, the information it asks for helps us resolve issues faster.

Note: If you find a Closed issue that seems like it is the same thing that you're experiencing, open a new issue and include a link to the original issue in the body of your new one.

Before Submitting A Bug Report

  • You might be able to find the cause of the problem and fix things yourself. Most importantly, check if you can reproduce the problem
  • Check the FAQs for a list of common questions and problems.
  • Determine which repository the problem should be reported in.
  • Perform a cursory search to see if the problem has already been reported. If it has and the issue is still open, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.

How Do I Submit A (Good) Bug Report?

Bugs are tracked as GitHub issues. After you've determined which repository your bug is related to, create an issue on that repository and provide the following information by filling in the template.

Explain the problem and include additional details to help maintainers reproduce the problem:

  • Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the problem.
  • Describe the exact steps which reproduce the problem in as many details as possible. When listing steps, don't just say what you did, but explain how you did it.
  • Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include links to files or GitHub projects, or copy/pasteable snippets, which you use in those examples. If you're providing snippets in the issue, use Markdown code blocks.
  • Describe the behavior you observed after following the steps and point out what exactly is the problem with that behavior.
  • Explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.
  • Include screenshots and animated GIFs which show you following the described steps and clearly demonstrate the problem. If you use the keyboard while following the steps, You can use this tool to record GIFs on macOS and Windows, and this tool or this tool on Linux.
  • If the problem wasn't triggered by a specific action, describe what you were doing before the problem happened and share more information using the guidelines below.

Provide more context by answering these questions:

Include details about your configuration and environment:

  • What's the name and version of the OS you're using?
  • Are you running a virtual machine? If so, which VM software are you using and which operating systems and versions are used for the host and the guest?

Suggesting Enhancements

This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions 🔎.

Before creating enhancement suggestions, please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating an enhancement suggestion, please include as many details as possible. Fill in the template, including the steps that you imagine you would take if the feature you're requesting existed.

How Do I Submit A (Good) Enhancement Suggestion?

Enhancement suggestions are tracked as GitHub issues. After you've determined which repository your enhancement suggestion is related to, create an issue on that repository and provide the following information:

  • Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
  • Provide a step-by-step description of the suggested enhancement in as many details as possible.
  • Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include copy/pasteable snippets which you use in those examples, as Markdown code blocks.
  • Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.
  • Include screenshots and animated GIFs which help you demonstrate the steps or point out the part of project which the suggestion is related to. You can use this tool to record GIFs on macOS and Windows, and this tool or this tool on Linux.
  • Explain why this enhancement would be useful to most project users
  • Specify the name and version of the OS you're using.

Your First Code Contribution

Unsure where to begin contributing to Technical-NGO? You can start by looking through these beginner and help-wanted issues:

  • [Beginner issues][beginner] - issues which should only require a few lines of code, and a test or two.
  • [Help wanted issues][help-wanted] - issues which should be a bit more involved than beginner issues.

Both issue lists are sorted by total number of comments. While not perfect, number of comments is a reasonable proxy for impact a given change will have.

Local development

Pull Requests

  • Fill in the required template
  • Do not include issue numbers in the PR title
  • Include screenshots and animated GIFs in your pull request whenever possible.
  • Follow the JavaScript and CSS styleguides.
  • Include thoughtfully-worded, well-structured Jasmine specs in the ./spec folder.
  • Document new code based on the Documentation Styleguide
  • End all files with a newline

Styleguides

Git Commit Messages

  • Use the present tense ("Add feature" not "Added feature")
  • Use the imperative mood ("Move cursor to..." not "Moves cursor to...")
  • Limit the first line to 72 characters or less
  • Reference issues and pull requests liberally after the first line
  • When only changing documentation, include [ci skip] in the commit title
  • Consider starting the commit message with an applicable emoji:
    • 🎨 :art: when improving the format/structure of the code
    • 🐎 :racehorse: when improving performance
    • 🚱 :non-potable_water: when plugging memory leaks
    • 📝 :memo: when writing docs
    • 🐧 :penguin: when fixing something on Linux
    • 🍎 :apple: when fixing something on macOS
    • 🏁 :checkered_flag: when fixing something on Windows
    • 🐛 :bug: when fixing a bug
    • 🔥 :fire: when removing code or files
    • 💚 :green_heart: when fixing the CI build
    • ✅ :white_check_mark: when adding tests
    • 🔒 :lock: when dealing with security
    • ⬆️ :arrow_up: when upgrading dependencies
    • ⬇️ :arrow_down: when downgrading dependencies
    • 👕 :shirt: when removing linter warnings

JavaScript Styleguide

All JavaScript must adhere to JavaScript Standard Style.

  • Prefer the object spread operator ({...anotherObj}) to Object.assign()
  • Inline exports with expressions whenever possible 
    // Use this:
export default class ClassName {

}

// Instead of:
class ClassName {

}
export default ClassName

Specs Styleguide

  • Include thoughtfully-worded, well-structured Jasmine specs in the ./spec folder.
  • Treat describe as a noun or situation.
  • Treat it as a statement about state or how an operation changes state.

Example

describe 'a dog', ->
 it 'barks', ->
 # spec here
 describe 'when the dog is happy', ->
  it 'wags its tail', ->
  # spec here

Documentation Styleguide

  • Use Markdown.
  • Reference methods and classes in markdown with the custom {} notation:
    • Reference classes with {ClassName}
    • Reference instance methods with {ClassName::methodName}
    • Reference class methods with {ClassName.methodName}

Example

# Public: Disable the package with the given name.
#
# * `name`    The {String} name of the package to disable.
# * `options` (optional) The {Object} with disable options (default: {}):
#   * `trackTime`     A {Boolean}, `true` to track the amount of time taken.
#   * `ignoreErrors`  A {Boolean}, `true` to catch and ignore errors thrown.
# * `callback` The {Function} to call after the package has been disabled.
#
# Returns `undefined`.
disablePackage: (name, options, callback) ->

Additional Notes

Issue and Pull Request Labels

This section lists the labels we use to help us track and manage issues and pull requests. Most labels are used across all Technical-NGO repositories.

GitHub search makes it easy to use labels for finding groups of issues or pull requests you're interested in. We encourage you to read about other search filters which will help you write more focused queries.

The labels are loosely grouped by their purpose, but it's not required that every issue have a label from every group or that an issue can't have more than one label from the same group.

Please open an issue on Technical-NGO/Technical-NGO.github.io if you have suggestions for new labels, and if you notice some labels are missing on some repositories, then please open an issue on that repository.

Type of Issue and Issue State

Label name Description
enhancement Feature requests.
bug Confirmed bugs or reports that are very likely to be bugs.
question Questions more than bug reports or feature requests (e.g. how do I do X).
feedback General feedback more than bug reports or feature requests.
help-wanted The team would appreciate help from the community in resolving these issues.
beginner Less complex issues which would be good first issues to work on for users who want to contribute for the first time.
more-information-needed More information needs to be collected about these problems or feature requests (e.g. steps to reproduce).
needs-reproduction Likely bugs, but haven't been reliably reproduced.
blocked Issues blocked on other issues.
duplicate Issues which are duplicates of other issues, i.e. they have been reported before.
wontfix The Technical-NGO core team has decided not to fix these issues for now, either because they're working as intended or for some other reason.
invalid Issues which aren't valid (e.g. user errors).
wrong-repo Issues reported on the wrong repository

Pull Request Labels

Label name Description
work-in-progress Pull requests which are still being worked on, more changes will follow.
needs-review Pull requests which need code review, and approval from maintainers.
under-review Pull requests being reviewed by maintainers.
requires-changes Pull requests which need to be updated based on review comments and then reviewed again.
needs-testing Pull requests which need manual testing.