footnotes/CONTRIBUTING.md

footnotes Contributing Guidelines

This project welcomes contributions!

This document describes everything you need to know about working with this project.

Table of Contents

• Code of Conduct
• Requesting Features and Reporting Bugs
• Development
• Releases
• Translating

Code of Conduct

Please read and ensure that you adhere to the project's Code of Conduct.

Requesting Features and Reporting Bugs

To request a new feature or to report a bug, create an Issue:

• example templates are provided;
• if you are reporting a bug that has security implications, please see the project security guidelines.

Development

Version Control

Version control for this project uses Git for development and Apache Subversion for releases:

• The development repository is hosted on GitHub; and
• the release repository is hosted on the WordPress Plugin Directory, a Subversion repository hosted by the WordPress Plugins team:
  • information on using the WordPress Plugin Directory can be found in the WordPress Plugin Handbook.

Branching

This project uses the GitHub Flow branching methodology:

• branch off of main to start developing (git checkout -b <your branch>);
• ensure that your new branch has a descriptive name (e.g., ‘fix-foo-bug’);
• create a remote copy of your new branch (git push);
• create a draft pull request to merge your branch with main:
  • tag any related or to-close Issues, Projects and Milestones:
    • if any Issues are assigned to a Project board, this will automatically move them into the ‘In Progress’ bucket.
  • assign the PR to yourself unless you have a good reason not to.
• when you think you're finished, un-draft your pull request:
  • if the request is assigned to a Project board, this will automatically move it and any related Issues into the ‘Review in progress’ bucket.

Committing

This project uses the Conventional Commits format for commit messages:

• commit message formatting can be automatically enforced by using Commitizen:
  • install it globally using npm install -g commitizen; then
  • use git cz instead of git commit.
• please keep individual commits as small and atomic as possible.

Configuration

The only configurable environment variable is the PRODUCTION_ENV flag in src/footnotes.php. This should always be set to false on this repo, and is automatically flipped during the release process.

Code Formatting

This repo. uses Husky to run pre-commit code formatting and linting on all staged files. This ensures that only style-conformant code can be committed (although this can be bypassed by passing the --no-verify argument to your git commit command).

The individual commands used by Husky can also be called manually:

• Run composer run format to run all format commands.

• Run composer run format:fix to attempt to automatically fix all formatter warnings and errors.

• Run composer run lint to run all linting commands.

• Run composer run lint:fix to attempt to automatically fix all linter warnings and errors.

NB: npm can also be used in place of composer.

PHP

PHP code must follow the [WordPress PHP Coding Standards][wpcs-php] and be compatible with PHP 7.0+.

1. Run composer run lint:php to lint all PHP files with [PHP CodeSniffer][phpcs]; and
2. run composer run lint:php:fix to attempt to automatically fix warnings and errors using the PHP Code Beautifier and Formatter tool.

JavaScript

JavaScript code must follow the [WordPress JavaScript Coding Standards][wpcs-js]. JavaScript code targets the ESNext standard.

1. Run composer run format:js to format all JS files with [Prettier] [prettier]; and

2. run composer run format:js:fix to attempt to automatically fix warnings and errors.

3. Run composer run lint:js to lint all JS files with [ESLint][eslint]; and

4. run composer run lint:js:fix to attempt to automatically fix warnings and errors.

Prettier and ESLint configuration settings are found in package.json. Prettier ignore rules are found in .prettierignore.

CSS

CSS stylesheets must follow the [WordPress CSS Coding Standards][wpcs-css].

1. Run composer run lint:css to lint all CSS files with [stylelint] [stylelint]; and
2. run composer run lint:css:fix to attempt to automatically fix warnings and errors.

stylelint configuration settings are found in package.json.

Markdown

• Run composer run lint:md to lint all Markdown files with markdownLint markdownlint; and
• run composer run lint:md:fix to attempt to automatically fix warnings and errors.

HTML

Run composer run lint:html to lint all HTML files with HTMLHint.

YAML

Run composer run validate:yaml to validate all YAML files with yaml-validator.

JSON

TODO

Testing

TODO

Documentation

This repo. uses Husky to run pre-push documentation generation. This is to guarantee that all HTML documentation on the remote repo. should be up-to-date, but this step can be bypassed if necessary by passing the --no-verify flag to the git push command.

Tooling

HTML documentation of the codebase is generated using [phpDocumentor][phpdocumentor].

phpDocumentor configuration settings are found in phpdoc.dist.xml.

Documenting

The codebase is documented using PHPDoc docblocks.

Documentation Commands

Command	Result
composer run docs	Regenerate HTML documentation.

Releases

Only Project Collaborators can issue new releases.

Versioning

This project uses WordPress Versioning for version numbering (as of 2.7).

Building

Run composer run build to build the Plugin.

Releasing

Run composer run release to run use the release handler:

• this is still a WIP!
• TODO: move to a GitHub Action so that the only way of handling a release is to create one on GitHub:
  • TODO: create separate pre-release and non-pre-release Actions

Translating

Translations are welcome!