This document describes the NixSage development workflow, versioning and GIT usage. If you want to get some insight into how LibreSignage is developed, this is a good place to start.
Contributions to LibreSignage are always welcome and fortunately contributing is quite straightforward. Basically you only need to write your patches against a specific branch in the GIT repo and create a Pull Request on GitHub to get it merged into the main repo. You should always ask whether your proposed change is needed in the GitHub issue tracker first, since in the end the repository owner, Eero Talus, is the one deciding what changes are merged.
- If you want to write a bugfix for a patch release, you need to base you changes on the oldest release branch where you want your patch applied. That way it's easy to merge it into newer releases aswell.
- If you want to contribute a new feature or a change that's not considered a bugfix, you need to base your changes on the next branch. This will make sure your changes are included in a future MINOR or MAJOR release.
In your pull request description, please describe the changes your pull pequest contains and why they are required. Your pull request will be reviewed by the repository owner or trusted contributors and if changes are required you'll be requested to make them before merging. When everything is finished, your PR will be merged to the correct branch and the changes will ship in a future release.