Thank you for your interest in contributing to DeFi Desktop Wallet! Good places to start are this document and the official documentation. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on Discord.
All contributors are expected to follow our Code of Conduct.
Feature requests and bug reports should be posted as Github issues. In an issue, please describe what you did, what you expected, and what happened instead.
If you think that you have identified an issue with Chain that might compromise its users' security, please do not open a public issue on GitHub. Instead, we ask you to refer to security policy.
There are several ways to identify an area where you can contribute:
- You can reach out by sending a message in the developer community communication channel, either with a specific contribution in mind or in general by saying "I want to help!".
- Occasionally, some issues on Github may be labelled with
help wanted
orgood first issue
tags.
Before sending a feature pull request, it's always better to open a issue first to discuss whether it is desired and the design of the feature.
We recommend using VS Code along with the ESLint extension.
The code and comments should follow Google TypeScript Style Guide. Many of the code style rules are captured by eslint
.
We use the Fork and Pull model and GitFlow to work on this repository.
There are two main branches:
dev
: This is the branch that is used to work on features and bug fixes.master
: This is the branch that is used to work on the official release.
We use Conventional Commits for commit messages. Please read the guide through if you aren't familiar with it already.
Changelogs are handled by maintainers, which will be batch updated before each release.
Please refer to the Instructions on Multi-Language Content Management for any content updates.
- Fork the DeFi Desktop Wallet's repository under your Github account.
- Clone your fork locally on your machine.
- Post a comment in the issue to say that you are working on it, so that other people do not work on the same issue.
- Create a local branch on your machine by
git checkout -b branch_name
fromdev
branch. - Commit your changes to your own fork -- see Conventional Commits for commit message guidelines.
- Include tests that cover all non-trivial code.
- Check you are working on the latest version on
dev
in DeFi Desktop Wallet's official repository. If not, please pull DeFi Desktop Wallet's official repository'sdev
(upstream) into your fork'sdev
branch, and rebase your committed changes or replay your stashed changes in your branch over the latest changes in the upstream version. - Run all tests locally and make sure they pass.
yarn test
- If your changes are of interest to other developers, please make corresponding changes in the official documentation and the changelog.
- Push your changes to your fork's branch and open the pull request to DeFi Desktop Wallet's repository
dev
branch. - In the pull request, complete its checklist, add a clear description of the problem your changes solve, and add the following statement to confirm that your contribution is your own original work: "I hereby certify that my contribution is in accordance with the Developer Certificate of Origin (https://developercertificate.org/)."
- The reviewer will either accept and merge your pull request, or leave comments requesting changes via the Github PR interface (you should then make changes by pushing directly to your existing PR branch).
All contributions to this project are subject to the terms of the Developer Certificate of Origin, available here and reproduced below:
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.