CONTRIBUTING

The MIT Linked Data group and the ldnode project welcomes new contributors. This document will guide you through the process.

Step 1: FORK

Fork the project on GitHub and check out your copy.

$ git clone git@github.com:your_username/ldnode.git
$ cd ldnode
$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/linkeddata/ldnode.git

Step 2: BRANCH

Create a feature branch and start hacking:

$ git checkout -b my-feature-branch -t origin/master

Step 3: COMMIT

Make sure git knows your name and email address:

$ git config --global user.name "J. Random User"
$ git config --global user.email "j.random.user@example.com"

Writing good commit logs is important. A commit log should describe what changed and why. Follow these guidelines when writing one:

The first line should be 50 characters or less and contain a short description of the change prefixed with the name of the changed subsystem (e.g. "net: add localAddress and localPort to Socket").
Keep the second line blank.
Wrap all other lines at 72 columns.

A good commit log looks like this:

subsystem: explaining the commit in one line

Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things
in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue
being fixed, etc etc.

The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and
please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about
72 characters or so. That way `git log` will show things
nicely even when it is indented.

The header line should be meaningful; it is what other people see when they run git shortlog or git log --oneline.

Check the output of git log --oneline files_that_you_changed to find out what subsystem (or subsystems) your changes touch.

Step 4: REBASE

Use git rebase (not git merge) to sync your work from time to time.

$ git fetch upstream
$ git rebase upstream/master

Step 5: TEST

Bug fixes and features should come with tests. Add your tests in the test/ directory. Look at other tests to see how they should be structured (license boilerplate, common includes, etc.).

$ npm test

Makeall tests pass. Please, do not submit patches that fail either check.

Step 6: PUSH

$ git push origin my-feature-branch

Go to https://github.com/username/ldnode and select your feature branch. Click the 'Pull Request' button and fill out the form.

Pull requests are usually reviewed within a few days. If there are comments to address, apply your changes in a separate commit and push that to your feature branch. Post a comment in the pull request afterwards; GitHub does not send out notifications when you add commits.

Using HUB

hub is a tool released by Github to help developers to use their website from command line.

The described guidelines can be resumed as following:

$ git clone https://github.com/linkeddata/ldnode
$ cd ldnode

# to fork the repository
$ hub fork

# to fork the repository
$ git checkout -b feature-branch

# after committing your changes, push to your repo
$ git push your_username feature-branch

# start a PR
$ hub pull-request

This document is forked from joyent/node

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