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Contributing Guidelines

We would love for you to contribute to rnn-practice and help make it even better than it is today! As a contributor, here are the guidelines we would like you to follow:

Found a Bug?

If you find a bug in the source code, you can help us by submitting an issue to our GitHub Repository. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.

Submission Guidelines

Submitting an Issue

Before you submit an issue, please search the issue tracker, maybe an issue for your problem already exists and the discussion might inform you of workarounds readily available.

Submitting a Pull Request (PR)

Before you submit your Pull Request (PR) consider the following guidelines:

  1. Search GitHub for an open or closed PR that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.

  2. Fork the repository.

  3. Make your changes in a new git branch:

    git checkout -b my-fix-branch master
  4. Create your patch, including appropriate test cases.

  5. Follow our Coding Rules.

  6. Run the full test suite

  7. Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message that follows our commit message conventions. Adherence to these conventions is necessary because release notes are automatically generated from these messages.

    git commit -a

    Note: the optional commit -a command line option will automatically "add" edited files.

  8. Push your branch to GitHub:

    git push origin my-fix-branch
  9. In GitHub, send a pull request to rnn-practice:master.

  • If we suggest changes then:

    • Make the required updates.

    • Re-run the test suites to ensure tests are still passing.

    • Rebase your branch to upstream and force push to your GitHub repository (this will update your Pull Request):

      git checkout master
      git pull upstream master
      git checkout your-feature-branch
      git rebase upstream/master
      
      Once you have fixed conflicts
      
      git rebase --continue
      git push -f

That's it! Thank you for your contribution!

After your pull request is merged

After your pull request is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository:

  • Delete the remote branch on GitHub either through the GitHub web UI or your local shell as follows:

    git push origin --delete my-fix-branch
  • Check out the master branch:

    git checkout master -f
  • Delete the local branch:

    git branch -D my-fix-branch
  • Update your master with the latest upstream version:

    git pull upstream master

Coding Rules

To ensure consistency throughout the source code, use configured linting tool.

Commit Message Guidelines

We have very precise rules over how our git commit messages can be formatted. This leads to more readable messages that are easy to follow when looking through the project history.

Commit Message Format

Each commit message consists of a header, a body and a footer. The header has a special format that includes a type and a subject:

<type>: <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>

The header is mandatory.

Any line of the commit message cannot be longer 100 characters! This allows the message to be easier to read on GitHub as well as in various git tools.

docs: update contributing rules
bugfix: add missing validation to xyz

Type

Must be one of the following:

  • build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies
  • docs: Documentation only changes
  • feature: A new feature
  • bugfix: A bug fix
  • performance: A code change that improves performance
  • refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
  • style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)

Subject

The subject contains succinct description of the change:

  • use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes"
  • don't capitalize first letter
  • no dot (.) at the end

Body

The body should include the motivation for the change and contrast this with previous behavior.

Footer

The footer should contain any information about Breaking Changes and is also the place to reference GitHub issues that this commit Closes.