Contributing and Maintaining

First, thank you for taking the time to contribute!

The following is a set of guidelines for contributors as well as information and instructions around our maintenance process. The two are closely tied together in terms of how we all work together and set expectations, so while you may not need to know everything in here to submit an issue or pull request, it's best to keep them in the same document.

Ways to contribute

Contributing isn't just writing code - it's anything that improves the project. All contributions are managed right here on GitHub. Here are some ways you can help:

Reporting bugs

If you're running into an issue, please take a look through existing issues and open a new one if needed. If you're able, include steps to reproduce, environment information, and screenshots/screencasts as relevant.

Suggesting enhancements

New features and enhancements are also managed via issues.

Pull requests

Pull requests represent a proposed solution to a specified problem. They should always reference an issue that describes the problem and contains discussion about the problem itself. Discussion on pull requests should be limited to the pull request itself, i.e. code review.

For more on how 10up writes and manages code, check out our 10up Engineering Best Practices.

Workflow

The develop branch is the development branch which means it contains the next version to be released. trunk contains the current latest released version as reflected here on GitHub. Always work on the develop branch and open up PRs against develop.

Release instructions

Branch: Starting from develop, cut a release branch named release/X.Y.Z for your changes.
Version bump: Bump the version number in package.json, package-lock.json and any other relevant files if it does not already reflect the version being released.
Changelog: Add/update the changelog in CHANGELOG.md.
Props: update CREDITS.md file with any new contributors, confirm maintainers are accurate.
New files: Check to be sure any new files/paths that are unnecessary in the production version are included in .gitattributes.
Readme updates: Make any other readme changes as necessary.
Merge: Make a non-fast-forward merge from your release branch to develop (or merge the pull request), then do the same for develop into trunk (git checkout trunk && git merge --no-ff develop). trunk contains the stable development version.
Push: Push your trunk branch to GitHub (e.g. git push origin trunk).
Release: Create a new release, naming the tag and the release with the new version number, and targeting the trunk branch. Paste the changelog from CHANGELOG.md into the body of the release and include a link to the closed issues on the milestone.
Close milestone: Edit the milestone with release date (in the Due date (optional) field) and link to GitHub release (in the Description field), then close the milestone.
Punt incomplete items: If any open issues or PRs which were milestoned for X.Y.Z do not make it into the release, update their milestone to X.Y.Z+1, X.Y+1.0, X+1.0.0 or Future Release.

What to do if things go wrong

If you run into issues during the release process and things have NOT fully deployed to WordPress.org / npm / whatever external-to-GitHub location that we might be publishing to, then the best thing to do will be to delete any Tag (e.g., https://github.com/10up/action-repo-automator/releases/tag/TAGNAME) or Release that's been created, research what's wrong, and once things are resolved work on re-tagging and re-releasing on GitHub and publishing externally where needed.

If you run into issues during the release process and things HAVE deployed to WordPress.org / npm / whatever external-to-GitHub location that we might be publishing to, then the best thing to do will be to research what's wrong and once things are resolved work on a patch release and tag on GitHub and publishing externally where needed. At the top of the changelog / release notes it's best to note that its a hotfix to resolve whatever issues were found after the previous release.

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