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Contributing

How to contribute

src_prepare-overlay is very open to contribution and encourages it. There are several ways to contribute to this overlay:

Filing an issue

Those that do not have good knowledge in writing ebuilds can file an issue so we can create the ebuild and maintain it for the community. Before filing an issue, you will have to read the filing an issue guidelines.

Pulling Merge Requests

Those that want to help us easily maintain an ebuild without making us spend our time creating the ebuild can create the ebuild and pull a merge request so we can accept and add the ebuild to our overlay and maintain it for you. Before pulling a merge request, you will have to read the pulling merge requests guidelines.

Contributing guidelines

Before contributing, you will have to read the contributing guidelines as we will not accept your request if you do not respect our community guidelines.

Before filing an issue or pulling a Merge Request, first check if the package you are providing is not in TODO.md.

Filing an issue

When filing an issue you will have to provide:

  • [CATEGORY]/[PACKAGE_NAME] (e.g. www-client/icecat)
  • the description of the package
  • the home page of the package
  • OPTIONAL: the direct download link of the package
  • the license of the package (e.g. GPLv2)

by filling the skeleton of the ebuild in quotes:

NAME=""

DESCRIPTION=""     
HOMEPAGE=""     
SRC_URI=""     
LICENSE=""

After this, you can safely file the issue, and we will take care of it.

Pulling Merge Requests

When committing and/or pulling merge requests, you will have to respect our Committing & Pulling Merge Requests System (CnPMRS) so we can easily identify the changes:

  • Provide us the Manifest file;
  • Follow the committing & pulling merge request layout (below).

Each commit will have to be based on this layout:

[CATEGORY]/[PACKAGE_NAME]: [COMMIT_MESSAGE]

For example, if the package is called mail-client/freelook-bin, and you have added this package, the commit or merge request should look like this:

mail-client/freelook-bin: add freelook-bin-[PACKAGE_VERSION] # e.g. 1.0.0

For example, if the package is called mail-client/freelook-bin, and you have fixed an error, the commit or merge request should look like this:

mail-client/freelook-bin: fix QA - EROOT missing slash

This system also applies on your metadata.xml and Manifest.