# How to Contribute incorporeal-cms is a personal project seeking to implement a simpler, cleaner form of what would commonly be called a "CMS". I appreciate any help in making it better. incorporeal-cms is made available under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or any later version. ## Opening Issues Issues should be posted to my Gitea instance at . I'm not too picky about format, but I recommend starting the title with "Improvement:", "Bug:", or similar, so I can do a high level of prioritization. ## Contributions I don't expect contributors to sign up for my personal Gitea in order to send contributions, but it of course makes it easier. If you wish to go this route, please sign up at and fork the project. People planning on contributing often are also welcome to request access to the project directly. Otherwise, contact me via any means you know to reach me at, or , to discuss your change and to tell me how to pull your changes. ### Guidelines for Patches, etc. * Cloning * Clone the project. I would advise using a pull-based workflow where I have access to the hosted repository --- using my Gitea, cloning to a public GitHub, etc. --- rather than doing this over email, but that works too if we must. * Make your contributions in a new branch, generally off of `master`. * Send me a pull request when you're ready, and we'll go through a code review. * Code: * Keep in mind that I strive for simplicity in the software. It serves files and renders Markdown, that's pretty much it. Features around that function are good; otherwise, I need convincing. * Follow the style precedent set in the code. Do **not** use Black, or otherwise reformat existing code. I like it the way it is and don't need a militant tool making bad decisions about what is readable. * `tox` should run cleanly, of course. * Almost any change should include unit tests, and also functional tests if they provide a feature to the CMS functionality. For defects, include unit tests that fail on the unfixed codebase, so I know exactly what's happening. * Commits: * Squash tiny commits if you'd like. I prefer commits that make one atomic conceptual change that doesn't affect the rest of the code, assembling multiple of those commits into larger changes. * Follow something like [Chris Beams's post](https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/) on formatting a good commit message. * Please make sure your Author contact information is stable, in case I need to reach you. * Consider cryptographically signing (`git commit -S`) your commits. ### Custody of Contributions I do not request the copyright of contributions be assigned to me or to the project, and I require no provision that I be allowed to relicense your contributions. My personal oath is to maintain inbound=outbound in my open source projects, and the expectation is authors are responsible for their contributions. I am following the *spirit* of the [Developer Certificate of Origin](https://developercertificate.org/), but in a simplified fashion: By making a contribution to this project, you certify that: 1. The contribution was created by you and you have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the LICENSE file; or 2. The contribution is based upon previous work that is covered under an appropriate open source license compatible with the license indicated in the LICENSE file, and you have the right to contribute that work with or without modifications, under the terms of that same open source license; or 3. The contribution was provided directly to you by some other person who certified points 1, 2, or 3, and you have not modified it. In the event of point 3, your commit **must** include the Signed-off-by line(s) as a chain of custody, via `git commit -s`. For points 1 and 2, your commit with accurate Author information doubles as direct custody.