👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍
The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to BoxBilling, which are hosted in the BoxBilling Organization on GitHub. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
I don't want to read this whole thing, I just have a question!!!
What should I know before I get started?
This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the BoxBilling Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to the moderators on our Discord and Slack communities.
Drop a message to Discord and Slack communities for a question. Sometimes it takes time to respond; please be patient!
BoxBilling is an open source project — it's made up of over 50 modules. When you initially consider contributing to BoxBilling, you might be unsure about which of those 50 modules implements the functionality you want to change or report a bug for. This section should help you with that.
There are 2 types of modules:
- Service modules
- All other modules
Think of Service modules as products that you want to sell. These modules have actions related to product configuration. Lets say Servicedownloadable module allows you to sell Downloadable products such as e-books, images, photos, documents. Module keeps track of number of downloads, how many downloads were made.
If you need to sell new type of product you will implement Service type module.
Other modules extend whole BoxBilling API with any functionality needed. Check existing modules to get the idea of what is already shipped with default structure of BoxBilling.
This section guides you through submitting a bug report for BoxBilling. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your report 📝, reproduce the behavior 💻 💻, and find related reports 🔎.
Before creating bug reports, please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating a bug report, please include as many details as possible.
Note: If you find a Closed issue that seems like it is the same thing that you're experiencing, open a new issue and include a link to the original issue in the body of your new one.
- Perform a cursory search to see if the problem has already been reported. If it has and the issue is still open, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.
Bugs are tracked as GitHub issues. After you've determined which module your bug is related to, create an issue and provide the following information by filling in the template.
Explain the problem and include additional details to help maintainers reproduce the problem:
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the problem.
- Describe the exact steps which reproduce the problem in as many details as possible. For example, start by explaining what section exactly you used in the browser, or which API call you were using. When listing steps, don't just say what you did, but explain how you did it.
- Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include links to files or GitHub projects, or copy/pasteable snippets, which you use in those examples. If you're providing snippets in the issue, use Markdown code blocks.
- 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.
- Include screenshots and animated GIFs which show you following the described steps and clearly demonstrate the problem. If you use the keyboard while following the steps, record the GIF. You can use this tool to record GIFs on macOS and Windows, and this tool or this tool on Linux.
- If the problem wasn't triggered by a specific action, describe what you were doing before the problem happened and share more information using the guidelines below.
Provide more context by answering these questions:
- Can you reliably reproduce the issue? If not, provide details about how often the problem happens and under which conditions it normally happens.
- If the problem is related to working with files (e.g. opening and editing files), does the problem happen for all files and projects or only some? Does the problem happen only when working with local or remote files (e.g. on network drives), with files of a specific type (e.g. only JavaScript or Python files), with large files or files with very long lines, or with files in a specific encoding? Is there anything else special about the files you are using?
Include details about your configuration and environment:
- Which version of BoxBilling are you using? You can get the exact version by running
https://<your domain>/api/guest/system/versionin your browser. - What's the name and version of the server OS you're BoxBilling installation is running?
- What's the PHP version your server is using?
- What's the MySQL version your server is using?
This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion for BoxBilling, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions 🔎.
Before creating enhancement suggestions, please check this list as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating an enhancement suggestion, please include as many details as possible.
Unsure where to begin contributing to BoxBilling? You can start by looking through these beginner and help-wanted issues:
- [Beginner issues][beginner] - issues which should only require a few lines of code, and a test or two.
- [Help wanted issues][help-wanted] - issues which should be a bit more involved than
beginnerissues.
Both issue lists are sorted by total number of comments. While not perfect, number of comments is a reasonable proxy for impact a given change will have.
BoxBilling and all packages can be developed localy. Instructions on how to do this are provided in Readme:
The process described here has several goals:
- Maintain BoxBilling's quality
- Fix problems that are important to users
- Engage the community in working toward the best possible BoxBilling
- Enable a sustainable system for BoxBilling's maintainers to review contributions
Please follow these steps to have your contribution considered by the maintainers:
- Follow all instructions in the template
- Follow the styleguides
- After you submit your pull request, verify that all status checks are passing
What if the status checks are failing?
If a status check is failing, and you believe that the failure is unrelated to your change, please leave a comment on the pull request explaining why you believe the failure is unrelated. A maintainer will re-run the status check for you. If we conclude that the failure was a false positive, then we will open an issue to track that problem with our status check suite.
While the prerequisites above must be satisfied prior to having your pull request reviewed, the reviewer(s) may ask you to complete additional design work, tests, or other changes before your pull request can be ultimately accepted.
- Use the present tense ("Add feature" not "Added feature")
- Use the imperative mood ("Move cursor to..." not "Moves cursor to...")
- Limit the first line to 72 characters or less
- Reference issues and pull requests liberally after the first line
- When only changing documentation, include
[ci skip]in the commit title - Consider starting the commit message with an applicable emoji:
- 🎨
:art:when improving the format/structure of the code - 🐎
:racehorse:when improving performance - 🚱
:non-potable_water:when plugging memory leaks - 📝
:memo:when writing docs - 🐧
:penguin:when fixing something on Linux - 🍎
:apple:when fixing something on macOS - 🏁
:checkered_flag:when fixing something on Windows - 🐛
:bug:when fixing a bug - 🔥
:fire:when removing code or files - 💚
:green_heart:when fixing the CI build - ✅
:white_check_mark:when adding tests - 🔒
:lock:when dealing with security - ⬆️
:arrow_up:when upgrading dependencies - ⬇️
:arrow_down:when downgrading dependencies - 👕
:shirt:when removing linter warnings
- 🎨
All PHP must adhere to PSR-2.
Documentation repository can be found here
- Use [Read The Docs](Read The Docs) style guide.
- Use Markdown.