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# Contribution Guidelines
## Table of Contents
- [Contribution Guidelines](#contribution-guidelines)
- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Bug reports](#bug-reports)
- [Discuss your design](#discuss-your-design)
- [Testing redux](#testing-redux)
- [Code review](#code-review)
- [Styleguide](#styleguide)
- [Sign-off your work](#sign-off-your-work)
- [Release Cycle](#release-cycle)
- [Maintainers](#maintainers)
- [Owners](#owners)
- [Versions](#versions)
- [Copyright](#copyright)
## Introduction
This document explains how to contribute changes to TEA.
Sensitive security-related issues should be reported to
[security@gitea.io](mailto:security@gitea.io).
For configuring IDE or code editor to develop Gitea see [IDE and code editor configuration](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/tree/master/contrib/ide)
## Bug reports
Please search the issues on the issue tracker with a variety of keywords
to ensure your bug is not already reported.
If unique, [open an issue](https://gitea.com/gitea/tea/issues/new).
Please write clear, concise instructions so we can reproduce the behavior—
even if it seems obvious. The more detailed and specific you are,
the faster we can fix the issue. Check out [How to Report Bugs
Effectively](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html).
Please be kind, remember that TEA comes at no cost to you, and you're
getting free help.
## Discuss your design
The project welcomes submissions. If you want to change or add something,
please let everyone know what you're working on—[file an issue](https://gitea.com/gitea/tea/issues/new)!
Significant changes must go through the change proposal process
before they can be accepted. To create a proposal, file an issue with
your proposed changes documented, and make sure to note in the title
of the issue that it is a proposal.
This process gives everyone a chance to validate the design, helps
prevent duplication of effort, and ensures that the idea fits inside
the goals for the project and tools. It also checks that the design is
sound before code is written; the code review tool is not the place for
high-level discussions.
## Testing redux
Before sending code out for review, run the unit tests with `make test`.
Since TEA is an cli tool it should be obvious to test your feature locally first.
Tests live beside the packages they exercise. `make integration-test` runs the
`TestGitea*` tests against a disposable Gitea instance with an administrator
account named `integration` and a reviewer named `tea-reviewer`. Never point
these tests at a production instance: they create and delete resources.
```sh
GITEA_TEA_TEST_URL=http://127.0.0.1:3000 \
GITEA_TEA_TEST_TOKEN_FILE=/private/path/admin-token \
GITEA_TEA_TEST_REVIEWER_TOKEN_FILE=/private/path/reviewer-token \
make integration-test
```
Token files contain scoped PATs for their accounts and should be `0600`;
`scripts/integration-tokens.py` creates them for the CI accounts. Optional
coverage is enabled by `GITEA_TEA_TEST_REPOSITORY_ROOT` (the server's repository
root, with `[repository] IMPORT_LOCAL_PATHS = true`, for migration) and
`GITEA_TEA_TEST_SSH_ENDPOINT` (an SSH clone endpoint).
## Code review
Changes to TEA must be reviewed before they are accepted—no matter who
makes the change, even if they are an owner or a maintainer. We use Gitea's
pull request & review workflow to do that. Gitea ensure every PR is reviewed by at least 2 maintainers.
Please try to make your pull request easy to review for us. And, please read
the *[How to get faster PR reviews](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/261cb0fd089b64002c91e8eddceebf032462ccd6/contributors/guide/pull-requests.md#best-practices-for-faster-reviews)* guide;
it has lots of useful tips for any project you may want to contribute.
Some of the key points:
* Make small pull requests. The smaller, the faster to review and the
more likely it will be merged soon.
* Don't make changes unrelated to your PR. Maybe there are typos on
some comments, maybe refactoring would be welcome on a function... but
if that is not related to your PR, please make *another* PR for that.
* Split big pull requests into multiple small ones. An incremental change
will be faster to review than a huge PR.
## Styleguide
### Commands
Use explicit singular noun/verb commands, such as `tea issue list` and
`tea pr create`. Bare command groups show help. Commands validate input, collect
missing fields when the shared prompting policy permits it, invoke services, and
render results through injected streams. Destructive commands require confirmation
or `--yes`; `--no-input` disables implicit interaction. JSON results go to stdout;
diagnostics, prompts and the `✓`/`!` mutation messages (`done`/`warn`) go to stderr.
Lists register `-L/--limit` and `--page` with `pageFlags` and print through
`writeTable` with a `listSpec`: on a terminal an uppercase header row, a "Showing N of
M …" line, relative times and links in the first column; piped, tab-separated values
without header. Single items print through `writeView`. Every command has an
`Example`, and every command group a `Long` text.
### Internal Package Structure
- `internal/app`: Cobra commands and application dependency construction. It never
calls the API directly: every request goes through `internal/services`.
- `internal/services`: typed workflows over `gitea.dev/sdk`, independent of CLI flags
and terminal I/O, including pagination policy. Services map SDK types to tea's
output types; requests the SDK cannot make yet go through the raw helpers in
`raw.go`, each marked `TODO(sdk)` with the missing SDK piece.
- `internal/settings`: split configuration, validation, persistence, target resolution,
and remote URL parsing.
- `internal/auth`: secure credentials and OAuth lifecycle.
- `internal/transport`: the tea HTTP client shared by the SDK and raw requests: TLS,
timeouts, User-Agent, `--debug`, retries, token, Sudo and SSH-signature
authentication, and sanitised API errors. Its raw requests serve `tea api`, signed
downloads and log streaming.
- `internal/git`: repository discovery and cancellable Git subprocesses.
- `internal/terminal`: streams, input, editor, browser, and rendering.
- `internal/clierr`: typed errors and executable exit codes.
- `internal/aliases`: user command alias expansion.
- `internal/filelock`: cross-process locks for configuration writes.
- `internal/version`: build version metadata.
Unit and integration tests live beside their packages; see [Testing redux](#testing-redux).
### Code Style
Use `make fmt`, check with `make lint`.
Group imports into the standard library, then all other packages (local and
external) in one sorted block, as gofumpt keeps them:
```go
import (
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"gitea.dev/tea/internal/services"
"github.com/foo/bar"
"gopkg.io/baz.v1"
)
```
## Sign-off your work
The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the
patch. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise
have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are
pretty simple: If you can certify [DCO](DCO), then you just add a line
to every git commit message:
```
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>
```
Please use your real name; we really dislike pseudonyms or anonymous
contributions. We are in the open-source world without secrets. If you
set your `user.name` and `user.email` git configs, you can sign-off your
commit automatically with `git commit -s`.
## Release Cycle
Before we reach v1 there is no fixed release cycle.
## Maintainers
To make sure every PR is checked, we have [team
maintainers](MAINTAINERS). Every PR **MUST** be reviewed by at least
two maintainers (or owners) before it can get merged. A maintainer
should be a contributor of Gitea (or Gogs) and contributed at least
4 accepted PRs. A contributor should apply as a maintainer in the
[Discord](https://discord.gg/Gitea) #develop channel. The owners
or the team maintainers may invite the contributor. A maintainer
should spend some time on code reviews. If a maintainer has no
time to do that, they should apply to leave the maintainers team
and we will give them the honor of being a member of the [advisors
team](https://github.com/orgs/go-gitea/teams/advisors). Of course, if
an advisor has time to code review, we will gladly welcome them back
to the maintainers team. If a maintainer is inactive for more than 3
months and forgets to leave the maintainers team, the owners may move
him or her from the maintainers team to the advisors team.
For security reasons, Maintainers should use 2FA for their accounts and
if possible provide gpg signed commits.
https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication-2fa/
https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-with-gpg/
## Owners
This repo is part of the Gitea project and as such part of that project's
governance.
Since Gitea is a pure community organization without any company support,
to keep the development healthy we will elect three owners every year. All
contributors may vote to elect up to three candidates, one of which will
be the main owner, and the other two the assistant owners. When the new
owners have been elected, the old owners will give up ownership to the
newly elected owners. If an owner is unable to do so, the other owners
will assist in ceding ownership to the newly elected owners.
For security reasons, Owners or any account with write access (like a bot)
must use 2FA.
https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-account-with-two-factor-authentication-2fa/
After the election, the new owners should proactively agree
with our [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) requirements in the
[Discord](https://discord.gg/Gitea) #general channel. Below are the
words to speak:
```
I'm honored to having been elected an owner of Gitea, I agree with
[CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md). I will spend part of my time on Gitea
and lead the development of Gitea.
```
## Versions
tea has the `master` branch as a tip branch and has version branches
such as `release/v0.9`. `release/v0.9` is a release branch and we will
tag `v0.9.0` for binary download. If `v0.9.0` has bugs, we will accept
pull requests on the `release/v0.9` branch and publish a `v0.9.1` tag,
after bringing the bug fix also to the master branch.
Since the `master` branch is a tip version, if you wish to use Gitea
in production, please download the latest release tag version. All the
branches will be protected via GitHub, all the PRs to every branch must
be reviewed by two maintainers and must pass the automatic tests.
## Copyright
Code that you contribute should use the standard copyright header:
```
// Copyright 2020 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
```
Files in the repository contain copyright from the year they are added
to the year they are last changed. If the copyright author is changed,
just paste the header below the old one.