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Contribution guidelines

Any issues or suggestions are welcome at https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool or via e-mail to one of the maintainers. General inquiries can be sent to [email protected].

Code of conduct

Interaction within this project is covered by the FSFE's Code of Conduct.

Scope and design goals of REUSE

REUSE has a finite scope. The goal is to make upstream licensing easy, comprehensive, unambiguous, and machine-readable. Contributions which contradict the goals are unlikely to be accepted. Comprehensiveness is especially important; REUSE provides no real mechanism for excluding a file from REUSE compliance testing, and it is unlikely that such a mechanism will be added.

Behaviour changes to linting are also unlikely to be accepted, even if they are good changes. The linting behaviour should always match the REUSE Specification. If you think that the linting behaviour should change, you should open an issue on the reuse-website repository.

The linter does not accept any arguments or configurations which modify its behaviour in determining compliance. This is intentional.

Pull requests

Pull requests are generally welcome and encouraged, but please beware that they may be closed for various reasons, such as:

  • The change is out-of-scope for REUSE.
  • The change does not align with the design goals of REUSE.
  • The change is good, but the maintenance burden is too heavy.

To be safe, open an issue and engage in dialogue before beginning to implement a feature that may not be accepted.

When making a pull request, don't hesitate to add yourself to the AUTHORS.rst file and the copyright headers of the files you touch.

Change log

Every pull request should add a change log entry. Change log entries go into changelog.d/<directory>/<name>.md, where <directory> is the appropriate category for the change set, and where <name> is a short or random name for your change set.

The contents of the file should typically look like this:

- Added a new feature. (#pr_number)

At release time, the contents of the changelog.d/ directory are compiled into CHANGELOG.md using protokolo compile.

Some PRs are excepted from adding change log entries, such as changes which are too tiny to be significant, certain refactorings, or fixes to pull requests which were already merged, but not yet released.

Translation

Translations are welcome at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/fsfe/reuse-tool/. If you need additional help to get started, don't hesitate to get in touch with the maintainers.

Broader instructions on how to help the FSFE translate things into local languages can be found at https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/. The translators keep in touch with the [email protected] mailing list.

Local development

Starting local development is very simple, just execute the following commands:

git clone [email protected]:fsfe/reuse-tool.git
cd reuse-tool/
poetry install  # You may need to install poetry using your package manager.
poetry run pre-commit install  # Using poetry is optional here if you already have pre-commit.

Next, you'll find the following commands handy:

  • poetry run reuse
  • poetry run pytest
  • poetry run pylint src
  • poetry run mypy
  • make docs

Development conventions

Poetry

Because our downstreams may not have a very recent version of Poetry, we should target poetry-core>=1.4.0 and poetry~=1.3.0 when interacting with Poetry, especially when generating the poetry.lock file. You can pip install poetry~=1.3.0 to ascertain that you always get this right.

In order to update the poetry.lock file while changing as few lines as possible, run poetry lock --no-update.

Release checklist

  • Verify changelog
  • Create branch release-x.y.z
  • bumpver update --set-version vx.y.z
  • make update-resources
  • Alter changelog
  • Do some final tweaks/bugfixes (and alter changelog)
  • make test-release
  • pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple reuse and test the package.
  • Once everything is good, git tag -s vx.y.z. Minimal tag message.
  • git push origin vx.y.z
  • make release
  • git checkout main
  • git merge release-x.y.z
  • git push origin main
  • Create a release on GitHub.

After release