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Submitting Issues

When submitting issues to our issue tracker, it's important that you do the following:

  1. Describe your issue clearly and concisely.
  2. Give Willie the .version command, and include the output in your issue.
  3. Note the OS you're running Willie on, and how you installed Willie (via your package manager, pip, setup.py install, or running straight from source)
  4. Include relevant output from the log files in ~/.willie/logs.

Committing Code

We prefer code to be submitted through GitHub pull requests. We do require that code submitted to the project be licensed under the Eiffel Forum License v2, the text of which was distributed with the source code.

In order to make it easier for us to review and merge your code, it's important to write good commits, and good commit messages. Below are some things you should do when you want to submit code. These aren't hard and fast rules; we may still consider code that doesn't meet all of them. But doing the stuff below will make our lives easier, and by extension make us more likely to include your changes.

  • Commits should focus on one thing at a time. Do include whatever you need to make your change work, but avoid putting unrelated changes in the same commit. Preferably, one change in functionality should be in exactly one commit.
  • pep8ify your code before you commit. We don't worry about line length much (though it's good if you do keep lines short), but you should try to follow the rest of the rules.
  • Test your code before you commit. We don't have a formal testing plan in place, but you should make sure your code works as promised before you commit.
  • Make your commit messages clear and explicative. Our convention is to place the name of the thing you're changing in [brackets] at the beginning of the message: the module name for modules, [docs] for documentation files, [coretasks] for coretasks.py, [db] for the database feature, and so on.
  • Python files should always have #coding: utf8 as the first line (or the second, if the first is #!/usr/bin/env python), and from __future__ import unicode_literals as the first line after the module docstring.

Issue Tags

If you're looking to hack on some code, you should consider fixing one of the issues that has been reported to the GitHub issue tracker. Here's a quick guide to the tags we use:

  • Easyfix - A great place for a new developer to start off, Easyfix issues are ones which we think will be simple and quick to address.
  • Patches Welcome - Things we don't plan on doing, but which we might be interested to see someone else submit code for
  • Bug - An error or incorrect behavior
  • Feature - A new thing the bot should be able to do
  • Tweak - A minor change to something the bot already does, like making something's output prettier, improving the documentation on something, or addressing technical debt
  • Tracking - An ongoing process that involves lots of changes in lots of places. Often also a Tweak.
  • Low Priority - Things we'll get around to doing eventually
  • Medium Priority - Things that need to be done soon
  • High Priority - Things that should've been done yesterday
  • Tests - Issues regarding the testing unit in tests/
  • Windows - Windows-specific bugs are labelled as such