👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍
The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to the ThingPulse OLED SSD1306 library on GitHub. These are just guidelines, not rules, use your best judgment and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
It is appreciated if you raise an issue before you start changing the code, discussing the proposed change; emphasizing that you are proposing to develop the patch yourself, and outlining the strategy for implementation. This type of discussion is what we should be doing on the issues list and it is better to do this before or in parallel to developing the patch rather than having "you should have done it this way" type of feedback on the PR itself.
We are a friendly and welcoming community and look forward to your contributions. Once your contribution is integrated into this repository we feel responsible for it. Therefore, be prepared for constructive feedback. Before we merge anything we need to ensure that it fits in and is consistent with the rest of code. If you made something really cool but won't spend the time to integrate it into this upstream project please still share it in your fork on GitHub. If you mention it in an issue we'll take a look at it anyway.
ThingPulse maintains documentation for its products at https://github.com/thingpulse/docs/. If you contribute features for this project that require altering the respective product guide then we ask you to prepare a pull request with the necessary documentation changes as well.
Avoid intermediate merge commits. Rebase your feature branch onto master
to pull updates and verify your local changes against them before placing the pull request.
- Fork this repository on GitHub.
- Create a branch in your fork on GitHub based on the
master
branch. - Clone the fork on your machine with
git clone https://github.com/<your-account>/<esp8266-oled-ssd1306>.git
cd <weather-station-fork>
then rungit remote add upstream https://github.com/ThingPulse/esp8266-oled-ssd1306
git checkout <branch-name>
- Make changes to the code base and commit them using e.g.
git commit -a -m 'Look ma, I did it'
- When you're done bring your fork up-to-date with the upstream repo (see below). Then rebase your branch on
master
runninggit rebase master
. git push
- Create a pull request (PR) on GitHub.
This is just one way of doing things. If you're proficient in Git matters you're free to choose your own. If you want to read more then the GitHub chapter in the Git book is a way to start. GitHub's own documentation contains a wealth of information as well.
You need to sync your fork with the upstream repository from time to time, latest before you rebase (see flow above).
git fetch upstream
git checkout master
git merge upstream/master
From: http://git-scm.com/book/ch5-2.html
Short (50 chars or less) summary of changes More detailed explanatory text, if necessary. Wrap it to about 72 characters or so. In some contexts, the first line is treated as the subject of an email and the rest of the text as the body. The blank line separating the summary from the body is critical (unless you omit the body entirely); tools like rebase can get confused if you run the two together. Further paragraphs come after blank lines. - Bullet points are okay, too - Typically a hyphen or asterisk is used for the bullet, preceded by a single space, with blank lines in between, but conventions vary here
Don't forget to reference affected issues in the commit message to have them closed automatically on GitHub.
Amend your commit messages if necessary to make sure what the world sees on GitHub is as expressive and meaningful as possible.