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Contributing to this project

Please take a moment to review this document in order to make the contribution process easy and effective for everyone involved.

Please Note: These guidelines are adapted from @necolas's issue-guidelines and serve as an excellent starting point for contributing to any open source project.

Using the issue tracker

The issue tracker is the preferred channel for bug reports, features requests and submitting pull requests, but please respect the following restrictions:

  • Support issues or usage question that are not bugs should be posted on Google Groups

  • Please do not derail or troll issues. Keep the discussion on topic and respect the opinions of others.

Bug reports

A bug is a demonstrable problem that is caused by the code in the repository. Good bug reports are extremely helpful — thank you!

Guidelines for bug reports:

  1. Make sure you are using the latest version.

  2. Use the GitHub issue search — check if the issue has already been reported.

  3. Post Yadcf and Datatables code constructors snippets

  4. Isolate the problem — ideally create a reduced test case and a live example (perhaps a fiddle).

A good bug report shouldn't leave others needing to contact you for more information. Please try to be as detailed as possible in your report. What is your environment? What steps will reproduce the issue? What browser(s) and OS experience the problem? What outcome did you expect, and how did it differ from what you actually saw? All these details will help people to fix any potential bugs.

Example:

Short and descriptive example bug report title

A summary of the issue and the browser/OS environment in which it occurs. If suitable, include the steps required to reproduce the bug.

  1. This is the first step
  2. This is the second step
  3. Further steps, etc.

<url> - a link to the reduced test case

Any other information you want to share that is relevant to the issue being reported. This might include the lines of code that you have identified as causing the bug, and potential solutions (and your opinions on their merits).

Note: In an effort to keep open issues to a manageable number, we will close any issues that do not provide enough information for us to be able to work on a solution. You will be encouraged to provide the necessary details, after which we will reopen the issue.

Feature requests

Feature requests are welcome. But take a moment to find out whether your idea fits with the scope and aims of the project. It's up to you to make a strong case to convince the project's developers of the merits of this feature. Please provide as much detail and context as possible.

Building something great means choosing features carefully especially because it is much, much easier to add features than it is to take them away. Additions to Yadcf will be evaluated on a combination of scope (how well it fits into the project), maintenance burden and general usefulness.

Creating something great often means saying no to seemingly good ideas. Don't dispair if your feature request isn't accepted, take action! Fork the repository, build your idea and share it with others.

Pull requests

Good pull requests — patches, improvements, new features — are a fantastic help. They should remain focused in scope and avoid containing unrelated commits.

Please ask first before embarking on any significant pull request (e.g. implementing features, refactoring code, porting to a different language), otherwise you risk spending a lot of time working on something that the project's developers might not want to merge into the project. You can solicit feedback and opinions in an open feature request thread or create a new one.