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+title: How to contribute to Dancer
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+For our development projects, we rely a lot on Github. Lately, more and more people started contributing to Dancer, but not all of them are familiar with Github or git. Here is a little step-by-step guide on how to contribute.
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+h3. the code
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+The main repository is hosted "here":http://github.com/sukria/dancer. There are two main branches:
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+ * master
+ * devel
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+In the master branch we accept only bug fixes and doc fixes/updates. The current master branch will be the future 1.2 version.
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+The devel branch is where we add new features, or improve existing features.
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+h3. contributing
+
+First, go to "github.com/sukria/dancer:http://github.com/sukria/dancer and click on the "fork" button. Now, here is a little tutorial on how to fetch the repository, list the local and remote branches, and track the remote devel branch.
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+<script src="http://gist.github.com/609443.js?file=forking%20dancer"></script>
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+Now that you know what the purpose of each branch is, you can decide to work on master or devel (*git checkout devel* to switch branch).
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+h3. sending your patch
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+As I've previously stated, we rely a lot on the github features and interface. So now you've written your patch. First, be sure to provide one or more tests, and to run the test suite (with *make test* or *prove -r t/*). If all the tests pass, you can send a pull request. For this, you go on your own fork on github (http://github.com/$user/dancer), and you click on the "Pull Request" button.
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+You can at any time see all the commits done by others that have not yet been merged into one of our branches at "this url":http://github.com/sukria/Dancer/forkqueue.
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+h3. reporting and/or fixing bugs
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+We prefer to use the github issue tracker instead of RT. So if you want to report a bug, go "there":http://github.com/sukria/dancer/issues.
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+If your commit fixes a bug reported there, please add in your commit message something like 'fixing GH #xxx" where xxx is the bug id.
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+Thank you to everyone who have contributed so far!