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.
New features should be coupled with tests.
Ensure that your code blends well with ours:
No trailing whitespace
Match indentation (two spaces)
Match coding style (`if`, `elsif`, `when` need trailing `then`)
If any new files are added or existing files removed in a commit or PR, please update the `Manifest.txt` accordingly.
Don’t modify the history file or version number.
If you have any questions, just ask on IRC in rubygems on Freenode or file an issue here: github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues
For more information and ideas on how to contribute to RubyGems ecosystem, see here: guides.rubygems.org/contributing/
$ gem install hoe $ rake newb
To run commands like `gem install` from the repo:
$ ruby -Ilib bin/gem install
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.
Most Issues or pull requests will have one of these labels, which describes the type of the issue or pull request.
bug report - An issue describing a bug in rubygems. This would be something that is broken, confusing, unexpected behavior etc.
bugfix - A pull request that fixes a bug report.
feature request - An issue describing a request for a new feature or enhancement.
feature implementation - A pull request implementing a feature request.
question - An issue that is a more of a question than a call for specific changes in the codebase.
cleanup - Generally for a pull request that improves the code base without fixing a bug or implementing a feature.
major bump - This issue or pull request requires a major version bump
administrative - This issue relates to administrative 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.
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.
triage - This is an issue or pull request that needs to be properly labeled by by a maintainer.
accepted - This issue / pull request has been accepted as valid and will be worked on by someone.
ready for work - 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.
claimed - 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.
feedback- This issue/pull request is waiting on feedback
from one ore more of the folks involved in the issue. Generally their
should be an @username/team in the issue indicating who should
respond.
blocked - 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.
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.
These are aspects of the codebase, or what general area the issue or pull request pertains too. Not all issues will have a category.
gemspec - related to the gem specification itself
API - related to the public supported rubygems API. This is the code api, not a network related API.
command - related to something in
Gem::Commands
install - related to gem installations
documentation - related to updating / fixing / clarifying documentation or guides
All category labels are the same blue color.
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.