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115 lines
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# Contributing
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## Bugs
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Please look at `https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues`.
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## Style
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If you intend to patch and contribute to awesome, please respect the
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following guidelines.
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Imitate the existing code style. For concrete rules:
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- Use 4 spaces indentation, do not use tabulator characters;
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- Place braces alone on new lines, and do not place braces for single
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line statement where it is not needed, i.e. no:
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if(bla) {
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x = 1;
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}
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- Do not put a space after if, for, while or function call statements;
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- The preferred line length is 80 characters;
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- Use `/* */` for comments;
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- Use the API: there's a list of `a_*()` functions you should use instead
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of the standard libc ones. There is also a common API for linked lists,
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tabulars, etc.;
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- Be *clear* in what you do;
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- Prefix your function name with the module they are enhancing,
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i.e. if you add a function to manipulate a tag prefix it with `tag_`;
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- Write documentation for any new functions, options, whatever.
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A vim modeline is set in each file to respect this.
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### Documentation of lua files
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For documentation purposes LDoc---see
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[here](https://stevedonovan.github.io/ldoc/manual/doc.md.html) for its
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documentation---is used. Comments that shall be parsed by LDoc have the
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following format:
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--- summary.
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-- Description; this can extend over
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-- several lines
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-----------------
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-- This will also do.
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--[[--
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Summary. A description
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...;
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]]
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One can use the full power of
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[Markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown) with the extensions of
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[Discount](http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/) for mark-up in
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the comments.
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Every module and class should have a short description at its beginning which
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should include `@author author`, `@copyright year author`, `@release
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@AWESOME_VERSION@` and `@module module-name` or `@classmod class-name`.
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Parameters of functions should be documented by `@param parameter description`,
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return values via `@return description` or `@treturn type description`. For a
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more comprehensive description of the available tags see the [LDoc
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documentation](https://stevedonovan.github.io/ldoc/manual/doc.md.html).
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In addition to the regular tags provided by LDoc there are also some aliases
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for tags defined in `docs/config.ld`.
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## Patches
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If you plan to submit patches, you should follow the following guidelines.
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### Commits
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- make commits of logical units;
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- do not modify piece of code not related to your commit;
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- do not try to fix style of code you are not writing,
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it's just adding noise for no gain;
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- check for unnecessary whitespace with `git diff --check` before committing;
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- do not check in commented out code or unneeded files;
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- provide a meaningful commit message;
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- the first line of the commit message should be a short;
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description and should skip the full stop;
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- if you want your work included, add a
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`Signed-off-by: Your Name <you@example.com>` line to the
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commit message (or just use the option `-s` when committing);
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- make sure that you have tests for the bug you are fixing;
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- if possible, add a unit test to the test suite under spec/.
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### Patches
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Submitting patches via pull requests on the Github project is the preferred
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method.
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#### Pull request
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- create a [pull request](https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pulls)
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#### git-send-email
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- use `git format-patch -M` to create the patch;
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- do *not* PGP sign your patch;
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- be *careful* doing cut & paste into your mailer, not to corrupt whitespaces;
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- if you change, add or remove the user API, the associated documentation
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should be updated as well;
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- send the patch to the list (`awesome-devel@naquadah.org`) if (and only if)
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the patch is ready for inclusion. If you use git-send-email(1), please *test*
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it first by sending email to yourself.
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