= How to contribute

Community involvement is essential to RubyGems. We want to keep it easy as
possible to contribute changes. There are a few guidelines that we need
contributors to follow to reduce the time it takes to get changes merged in.

== Guidelines

1. New features should be coupled with tests.

2. Ensure that your code blends well with ours:
   * No trailing whitespace
   * Match indentation (two spaces)
   * Match coding style (`if`, `elsif`, `when` need trailing `then`)

3. Don't modify the history file or version number.

4. If you have any questions, just ask on IRC in #rubygems on Freenode or file
   an issue here: http://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues

For more information and ideas on how to contribute to RubyGems ecosystem, see
here: http://guides.rubygems.org/contributing/

== Getting Started

    $ gem install hoe
    $ rake newb

To run commands like `gem install` from the repo:

    $ ruby -Ilib bin/gem install

== Issues

RubyGems uses labels to track all issues and pull requests. In order to provide
guidance to the community this is documentation of how labels are used in the
rubygems repository.

=== Type

Most Issues or pull requests will have one of these labels, which describes the
type of the issue or pull request.

* <b>bug report</b> - An issue describing a bug in rubygems. This would be something
  that is broken, confusing, unexpected behavior etc.
* <b>bugfix</b> - A pull request that fixes a bug report.
* <b>feature request</b> - An issue describing a request for a new feature or
  enhancement.
* <b>feature implementation</b> - A pull request implementing a feature request.
* <b>question</b> - An issue that is a more of a question than a call for specific
  changes in the codebase.
* <b>cleanup</b> - Generally for a pull request that improves the code base without
  fixing a bug or implementing a feature.
* <b>major bump</b> - This issue or pull request requires a major version bump
* <b>administrative</b> - This issue relates to adminstrative tasks that need to
  take place as it relates to rubygems

Bug report and Bugfix have the same color. And feature implementation and
feature request have the same color since they are related labels.

=== Workflow

These are labels that indicate the state of an issue, where it is in the process
from being submitted to being closed. These are listed in rough progression
order from submitted to closed.

* <b>triage</b> - This is an issue or pull request that needs to be properly
  labeled by by a maintainer.
* <b>accepted</b> - This issue / pull request has been accepted as valid and
  will be worked on by someone.
* <b>ready for work</b> - An issue that is available for collaboration. This issue
  should have existing discussion on the problem, and a description of how to go
  about solving it. This label should be removed once someone has said they are
  going to work on it.
* <b>claimed</b> - An issue that is claimed by a member of the community and is
  working on it. If the member can be assigned to the issue, they should be.
* <b>feedback</b>- This issue/pull request is waiting on feedback from
  one ore more of the folks involved in the issue. Generally their should be an
  <tt>@username/team</tt> in the issue indicating who should respond.
* <b>blocked</b> - the issue/pull request is currently unable to move forward because
  of some specific reason, generally this will be a reason that is outside
  RubyGems or needs feedback from some specific individual or group, and it may
  be a while before something it is resolved.

Feedback and blocked all have the same color since they are all waiting on
someone in particular to do something.

=== Inactive Reason

Reasons are why an issue / pull request was closed without being worked on or
accepted. There should also be more detailed information in the comments.

* *duplicate* - This is a duplicate of an existing bug. The comments must
  reference the existing issue.
* *abandonded* - This is an issue/pull request that has aged off, is no longer
  applicable or similar.
* *declined* - An issue that won't be fixed/implemented or a pull request that 
  is not accepted.
* *deprecated* - An issue/pull request that no longer applies to the actively
  maintained codebase.

All the reason labels are the same maroon color.

=== Categories

These are aspects of the codebase, or what general area the issue or pull
request pertains too. Not all issues will have a category.

* <b>gemspec</b> - related to the gem specification itself
* <b>API</b> - related to the public supported rubygems API. This is the code api,
  not a network related API.
* <b>command</b> - related to something in <tt>Gem::Commands</tt>
* <b>install</b> - related to gem installations
* <b>documentation</b> - related to updating / fixing / clarifiying documentation or
  guides

All category labels are the same blue color.

=== Platforms

If an issue or pull request pertains to only one platform, then it should have
an appropriate platform tag.

* *windows*
* *java*
* *osx*
* *linux*

All platform tags are the same purple color.
