iowo/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributing to iOwO

Before we get started, thank you for thinking about doing so!

## Through an issue

- Be excellent to each other. Adhere to the [code of conduct].
- About the title: If you had 5 seconds to tell someone the essence of the issue, what would it be?

### Bugs

- Write out in detail which steps in which order are necessary to reproduce the bug.
- Include environmental information as well, in specific:
  - How did you install iOwO?
  - What version of iOwO are you running?
  - What operating system are you running?
    In the case of a Linux distro, mention the specific distro and when you last update as well.
- If the bug causes a crash, try to get a backtrace or in worse cases, a coredump.

### Feature requests

- Be sure to include a motivation in which case your intended feature would be used
  even if it seems obvious to you.
- Estimate what would be needed to implement the feature:
  - Is it an addition to the language itself?
  - Is it just a new command?
  - Does it ground-breakingly change how iOwO works?

## Through a PR

1. Clone the repo.
2. Switch to a new appropiately named branch for what you want to do, using `git switch -c`.
3. Implement your code changes with your favorite code editor.
4. Try them with `cargo run`.
5. If there are errors or warnings, go to step 3. Commit occasionally.
6. Otherwise,
  - if you have an account at https://forge.katzen.cafe,
    1. fork the repo
    2. set it up as a remote using `git remote add`
    3. push using `git push @ -u`
  - if you don't,
    1. combine your patches using `git diff --patch` and throw them in a file
    2. send that file to one of the maintainers per email
      - alongside with a description of what it does
    3. also mention in the mail that we should consider GitHub and GitLab mirrors,
       referring to this line

### Tech stack

The techstack we operate on is

- [typst] for documents and concrete proposals
- [Rust] for the actual code

So if you want to contribute functionality, take a look at [The Rust Programming Language book]!
If you want to contribute thoughts and technical designs, then consider taking a ride through
[typst's excellent tutorial]!

For creative things, we suggest using whatever **you** are comfortable with.
Otherwise, we suggest these:

- [Inkscape], [GIMP] and [Blender] for promotional material like logos and posters
- [Penpot] for layouting prototypes and the like

[typst]: https://typst.app
[Rust]: https://www.rust-lang.org
[The Rust Programming Language book]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
[typst's excellent tutorial]: https://typst.app/docs/tutorial

[Inkscape]: https://inkscape.org/ 
[GIMP]: https://www.gimp.org/
[Blender]: https://www.blender.org/
[Penpot]: https://penpot.app/

## Politics

- Current maintainers are defined as the entities listed in the [code of conduct]

### PRs

- Every PR requires an approving review from a maintainer (that is not the author) before merge
- Maintainers can merge their own PRs
  - But only after approval

### Major decisions

- All current maintainers have to agree **unanimously**.
- Agreement must be based on [informed consent].
  - In effect, a maintainer has to understand what they agree to.

# Interacting with PRs

Remember, be respectful.
Entities invest their free time and motivation into making these changes,
treat them appropiately.

- Since in iOwO, we mostly work based on forks, [git's remotes] work fairly good.
- Replace things in pointy brackets (`<>`) respectively (and remove the pointy brackets).

## Initial steps for a new contributor or new local checkout

```sh
git remote add <contributor-name> https://forge.katzen.cafe/<contributor-account>/iowo.git
git remote update <contributor-name>
```

## After setting up the remote

- You can repeat this step anytime you want to switch branches or update your local checkout.
- The PR branch is visible just below the PR title on Forgejo, after the colon (`:`).

```sh
git switch <pr-branch>
git pull
```


[code of conduct]: ./CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
[informed consent]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informed_consent
[git's remotes]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-remote