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Contributing

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Bee. Please take note and follow the guidelines for contributing to this project.

Issues

Creating issues and commenting on existing issues are the the first steps to contributing.

Bugs

If reporting a bug, please ensure you provide complete details of the bug including:

  • Steps to reproduce
  • Expected results
  • Actual results
  • Relevant environment information could include, if it is applicable to the bug:
    • Bee version (get by typing bee version or bee status)
    • Backdrop CMS version (get from bee status)
    • PHP version (get from bee status)
    • MySQL or MariaDB version
    • OS and version (Remember: Windows is not supported natively but Bee can be used within WSL2 and other virtual machines).
    • Version of executable (if applicable)

When you report a bug, please watch out for and respond promptly to any follow up questions that I or other contributors may have in clarifying your bug report.

Enhancements

You are welcome to request new commands or improvements to existing commands. Please provide clear details as to why you want the improvement or what the command would be used for.

All contributors make contributions voluntarily so please be patient and don't expect instant results.

If you see an existing enhancement request that you would like, then feel free to add your support to that request.

Questions

If you are unsure of some part of how bee operates and you have checked the documentation in the Wiki feel free to ask a question in the issue queue.

Pull Requests

Pull requests must only relate to issues. You can indicate which issue it fixes by starting the description of the pull request with: Fixes #000 where '000' is the issue number you are addressing. This will link the pull request to the issue.

Coding standards

All code is expected to adhere to both:

Exceptions can be made where there are good reasons. For example, in the eval command we have the following where we specifically ignore a check for a discouraged PHP function on the next line:

    // phpcs:ignore Squiz.PHP.Eval -- integral part of the command
    eval($arguments['code'] . ';');

Tests

There are automated tests which test both functionality and coding standards, though the coding standards test is not comprehensive. If tests fail, please attempt to fix if you can. If you're not sure why tests have failed, ask.

If you are adding a new command or making changes to the way a command works, a new functional test or changes to existing functional tests, respectively, may be required. It is ok to request help if you are unsure about this.

Feedback and revisions

If you are given feedback in a review, please act on all of it; it is time consuming and frustrating to have to ask for the same changes multiple times. If you don't understand, please ask for clarification. If you don't agree, please explain why you don't agree.

Wiki

The Wiki is open to all to improve. New commands will need a change to the wiki and changes to existing commands may require a change to the wiki. Please follow existing patterns within the wiki and if you are unsure about something, ask before making a change.

If you feel the Wiki is missing something but you don't know what the answer is, feel free to ask a question in the issue queue.

Changes to the wiki are made by making an edit to the page with the docs folder of the repository and creating a pull request linked to an issue to merge it. This process was introduced to make it easier to build wiki updates into the process of adding or changing commands.

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