First of all, thanks for taking your time to contribute and help make our project even better than it is today! The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to Theme-Next and its libs submodules. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
- Before Submitting An Issue
- Reporting Bugs
- Suggesting Enhancements
- Submitting a Pull Request
- Creating Releases
If you just have a question, you'll get faster results by checking the FAQs for a list of common questions and problems or the troubleshooting part of «NexT» Documentation Site.
Also, you can perform a cursory search to see if the problem has already been reported or solved. You don't want to duplicate effort. You might be able to find the cause of the problem and fix things yourself, or add comments to the existed issue.
Before submitting an Issue on GitHub, you can follow the steps below to debug:
- Execute
hexo clean
, clear the browser cache and disable all CDN services (e.g. Cloudflare Rocket Loader) - Switch to another theme and check if the bug still exists (e.g. default theme landscape). In other words, prove that this is a NexT issue, not a issue from Hexo.
- Upgrade theme NexT to the latest version.
- Upgrade Hexo and Hexo plugins to the latest version.
- Upgrade Node.js and
npm
to the latest version. - Uninstall all non-essential Hexo plugins, or reinstall all plugins using
npm install --save
.
If you get an error message from Hexo or your browser, please search in Google / Stackoverflow / GitHub Issues, or report it to us when submitting a new Issue.
If you find a bug in the source code, most importantly, please check carefully if you can reproduce the problem in the latest release version of Next. Then, you can help us by Reporting Bugs or Suggesting Enhancements to our Repository. Even better, you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.
Before creating bug reports, please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. After you've determined the repository your bug is related to, create an issue on that repository and provide the information as many details as possible by filling in the required template.
Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your report 📝, reproduce the behavior, and find related reports:
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the problem.
- Provide more context by answering these questions:
- Can you reproduce the problem? Can you reliably reproduce the issue? If not, provide details about how often the problem happens and under which conditions it normally happens.
- Did the problem start happening recently or was this always a problem?
- If the problem started happening recently, can you reproduce the problem in an older version of Next? What's the most recent version in which the problem doesn't happen? You can download older versions of Next from the releases page.
- Which version of Node, Hexo and Next are you using? You can get the exact version by running
node -v
,hexo version
in your terminal, or copy the contents in site'spackage.json
. - Which packages do you have installed? You can get that list by copying the contents in site's
package.json
.
- Describe the exact steps which reproduce the problem in as many details as possible. When listing steps, don't just say what you did, but explain how you did it, e.g. which command exactly you used. If you're providing snippets in the issue, use Markdown code blocks or a permanent link to a code snippet, or a Gist link.
- Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include links to files (screenshots or GIFs) or live demo.
- Describe the behavior you observed after following the steps and point out what exactly is the problem with that behavior.
- Explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.
If you find a security issue, please act responsibly and report it not in the public issue tracker, but directly to us, so we can fix it before it can be exploited. Please send the related information to [email protected] (desirable with using PGP for e-mail encryption).
We will gladly special thanks to anyone who reports a vulnerability so that we can fix it. If you want to remain anonymous or pseudonymous instead, please let us know that; we will gladly respect your wishes.
Before creating enhancement suggestions, please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. After you've determined the repository your enhancement suggestion is related to, create an issue on that repository and provide the information as many details as possible by filling in the required template.
Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
- Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and Explain why this enhancement would be useful to most users.
- Provide specific examples to demonstrate the suggestion. Include links to files (screenshots or GIFs) or live demo.
Before creating a Pull Request (PR), please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. After you've determined the repository your pull request is related to, create a pull request on that repository. The detailed document of creating a pull request can be found here.
Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your pull request 📝:
- Follow our Coding Rules and commit message conventions.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the pull request. Do not include issue numbers in the PR title.
- Fill in the required template as many details as possible.
- All features or bug fixes must be tested in all schemes. And provide specific examples to demonstrate the pull request. Include links to files (screenshots or GIFs) or live demo.
Releases are a great way to ship projects on GitHub to your users.
- On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository. Under your repository name, click Releases. Click Draft a new release.
- Type a version number for your release. Versions are based on Git tags. We recommend naming tags that fit within About Major and Minor NexT versions.
- Select a branch that contains the project you want to release. Usually, you'll want to release against your
master
branch, unless you're releasing beta software. - Type a title and description that describes your release.
- Use the version as the title.
- The types of changes include Breaking Changes, Updates, Features, and Bug Fixes. In the section of Breaking Changes, use multiple secondary headings, and use item list in other sections.
- Use the passive tense and subject-less sentences.
- All changes must be documented in release notes. If commits happen without pull request (minimal changes), just add this commit ID into release notes. If commits happen within pull request alreay, just add the related pull request ID including all possible commits.
- If you'd like to include binary files along with your release, such as compiled programs, drag and drop or select files manually in the binaries box.
- If the release is unstable, select This is a pre-release to notify users that it's not ready for production. If you're ready to publicize your release, click Publish release. Otherwise, click Save draft to work on it later.
This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Code of Conduct to keep open and inclusive. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.
We use ESLint and Stylint for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript and Stylus, with the goal of making code more consistent and avoiding bugs. These specifications should be followed when coding.
We use "labels" in the issue tracker to help classify Pull requests and Issues. Using labels enables maintainers and users to quickly find issues they should look into, either because they experience them, or because it meets their area of expertise.
If you are unsure what a label is about or which labels you should apply to a PR or issue, look no further!
Issues related:
- By types
Bug
: A detected bug that needs to be confirmedFeature Request
: An issue that wants a new featureQuestion
: An issue about questionsMeta
: Denoting a change of usage conditionsSupport
: An issue labeled as support requestsPolls
: An issue that initiated a poll
- By results
Duplicate
: An issue which had been mentionedIrrelevant
: An irrelevant issue for NextInvalid
: An issue that cannot be reproducedExpected Behavior
: An issue that corresponds to expected behaviorNeed More Info
: Need more information for solving the issueVerified
: An issue that has been verifiedSolved
: An issue that has been solvedBacklog
: An issue that is to be completed and later compensatedStale
: This issue has been automatically marked as stale because lack of recent activity
Pull requests related:
Breaking Change
: A pull request that makes breaking changeBug Fix
: A pull request that fixes the related bugNew Feature
: A pull request that provides a new featureFeature
: A pull request that provides an option or addition to existing featurei18n
: A pull request that makes new languages translationWork in Progress
: A pull request that is still working in progressSkip Release
: A pull request that should be excluded from release note
Both:
Roadmap
: An issue / pull request about future developmentHelp Wanted
: An issue / pull request that needs helpDiscussion
: An issue / pull request that needs to be discussedImprovement
: An issue that needs improvement or a pull request that improves NexTPerformance
: An issue / pull request that improves the performanceHexo
: An issue / pull request related to Hexo or Hexo pluginsTemplate Engine
: An issue / pull request related to template engineCSS
: An issue / pull request related to CSSFonts
: An issue / pull request related to fontsPJAX
: An issue / pull request related to PJAX3rd Party Plugin
: An issue / pull request related to 3rd party plugins & serviceDocs
: An issue / pull request related to instruction documentConfigurations
: An issue / pull request related to configurations
We have very precise rules over how our git commit messages can be formatted. Each commit message consists of a type
and a subject
. This leads to more
readable messages that are easy to follow when looking through the project history.
type
describes the meaning of this commit including but not limited to the following items, and capitalize the first letter.Build
: Changes that affect the build system or external dependenciesCi
: Changes to our CI configuration files and scriptsDocs
: Documentation only changesFeat
: A new featureFix
: A bug fixPerf
: A code change that improves performanceRefactor
: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a featureStyle
: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)Revert
: Revert some existing commitsRelease
: Commit a release for a conventional changelog project
- The
subject
contains a succinct description of the change, likeUpdate code highlighting in readme.md
.- No dot (.) at the end.
- Use the imperative, present tense: "change" not "changed" nor "changes".