We like to encourage you to contribute to the repository. This should be as easy as possible for you but there are a few things to consider when contributing. The following guidelines for contribution should be followed if you want to submit a pull request.
Please also sign the Codebox contributor license agreement so we can accept your pull requests. It is easy, you can do it using your CodeboxIO account.
- You need a GitHub account
- Submit an issue ticket for your issue if the is no one yet.
- Describe the issue and include steps to reproduce if it's a bug.
- Ensure to mention the earliest version that you know is affected.
- If you are able and want to fix this, fork the repository on GitHub
- In your forked repository, create a topic branch for your upcoming patch. (e.g.
feature--autoplay
orbugfix--ios-crash
)- Usually this is based on the master branch.
- Create a branch based on master;
git branch fix/master/my_contribution master
then checkout the new branch withgit checkout fix/master/my_contribution
. Please avoid working directly on themaster
branch.
- Make sure you stick to the coding style that is used already.
- Make commits of logical units and describe them properly.
- Syntax:
- Four spaces, no tabs.
- No trailing whitespace. Blank lines should not have any space.
- a = b and not a=b.
- Follow the conventions you see used in the source already.
- Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
- Open a pull request to the original repository and choose the right original branch you want to patch.
- If not done in commit messages (which you really should do) please reference and update your issue with the code changes. But please do not close the issue yourself.
- Even if you have write access to the repository, do not directly push or merge pull-requests. Let another team member review your pull request and approve.