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Contributing
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============
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Thanks for wanting to contribute to Home Manager! These are some
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guidelines to make the process as smooth as possible for both you and
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the Home Manager developers.
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If you are only looking to report a problem then it is sufficient to
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read through the following section on reporting issues. If you instead
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want to directly contribute improvements and additions then please
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have a look at everything here.
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Reporting an issue
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------------------
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If you notice a problem with Home Manager and want to report it then
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have a look among the already [open issues][], if you find one
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matching yours then feel free to comment on it to add any additional
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information you may have.
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If no matching issue exists then go to the [new issue][] page and
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write a description of your problem. Include as much information as
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you can, ideally also include relevant excerpts from your Home Manager
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configuration.
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Contributing code
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-----------------
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If you want to contribute code to improve Home Manager then please
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follow these guidelines.
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### Fork and create a pull request ###
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If you have not previously forked Home Manager then you need to do
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that first. Have a look at GitHub's "[Fork A Repo][]" for instructions
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on how to do this.
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Once you have a fork of Home Manager you should create a branch
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starting at the most recent `master`. Give your branch a reasonably
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descriptive name. Perform your changes on this branch and when you are
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happy with the result push the branch to GitHub and
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[create a pull request][].
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### Commits ###
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The commits in your pull request should be reasonably self-contained,
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that is, each commit should make sense in isolation. In particular,
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you will be asked to amend any commit that introduces syntax errors or
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similar problems even if they are fixed in a later commit.
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The commit messages should follow the format
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{component}: {description}
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{long description}
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where `{component}` refers to the code component (or module) your
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change affects, `{description}` is a brief description of your change,
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and `{long description}` is an optional clarifying description. Note,
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`{description}` should start with a lower case letter. As a rare
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exception, if there is no clear component, or your change affects many
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components, then the `{component}` part is optional.
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When adding a new module, say `foo.nix`, we use the fixed commit
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format `foo: add module`. You can, of course, still include a long
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description if you wish.
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In addition to the above commit message guidelines, try to follow the
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[seven rules][] as much as possible.
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### News ###
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Home Manager includes a system for presenting news to the user. When
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making a change you, therefore, have the option to also include an
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associated news entry. In general, a news entry should only be added
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for truly noteworthy news. For example, a bug fix or new option does
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generally not need a news entry.
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If you do have a change worthy of a news entry then please add one in
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[`news.nix`][] but you should follow some basic guidelines:
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- The entry timestamp should be in ISO-8601 format having "+00:00" as
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time zone. For example, "2017-09-13T17:10:14+00:00". A suitable
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timestamp can be produced by the command
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date --iso-8601=second --universal
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- The entry condition should be as specific as possible. For example,
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if you are changing or deprecating a specific option then you could
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restrict the news to those users who actually use this option.
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- Wrap the news message so that it will fit in the typical terminal,
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that is, at most 80 characters wide. Ideally a bit less.
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- Unlike commit messages, news will be read without any connection to
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the Home Manager source code. It is therefore important to make the
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message understandable in isolation and to those who do not have
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knowledge of the Home Manager internals. To this end it should be
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written in more descriptive, prose like way.
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- If you refer to an option then write its full attribute path. That
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is, instead of writing
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> The option 'foo' has been deprecated, please use 'bar' instead.
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it should read
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> The option 'services.myservice.foo' has been deprecated, please
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> use 'services.myservice.bar' instead.
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- A new module, say `foo.nix`, should always include a news entry
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(without any condition) that has a message along the lines of
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> A new service is available: 'services.foo'.
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or
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> A new program configuration is available: 'program.foo'.
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depending on the type of module.
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[open issues]: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/issues
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[new issue]: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/issues/new
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[Fork A Repo]: https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/
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[create a pull request]: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/
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[seven rules]: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/#seven-rules
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[`news.nix`]: https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/blob/master/modules/misc/news.nix
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