Contributing

🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉

The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to Crowdin Xamarin Forms SDK. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.

This project and everyone participating in it are governed by the Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

How can I contribute?

Star this repo

It's quick and goes a long way! 🌠

Reporting Bugs

This section guides you through submitting a bug report for Crowdin Xamarin Forms SDK. Following these guidelines helps maintainers, and the community understand your report 📝, reproduce the behavior 💻, and find related reports 🔎.

When you are creating a bug report, please include as many details as possible.

How Do I Submit a Bug Report?

Bugs are tracked as GitHub issues.

Explain the problem and include additional details to help 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. Don't just say what you did, but explain how you did it.
  • 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 details about your environment.

Suggesting Enhancements

This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion for Crowdin Xamarin Forms SDK. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions 🔎.

When you are creating an enhancement suggestion, please include as many details as possible.

How Do I Submit an Enhancement Suggestion?

Enhancement suggestions are tracked as GitHub issues.

Create an issue on that repository and provide the following information:

  • Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
  • Provide a step-by-step description of the suggested enhancement in as many details as possible.
  • Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.
  • Explain why this enhancement would be useful to most Xamarin Forms SDK users.

Also, we’re using Discussions as a place to connect with other members of our community. We hope that you:

  • Ask questions you’re wondering about.
  • Share ideas.
  • Engage with other community members.
  • Welcome others and are open-minded. Remember that this is a community we build together 💪.

Your First Code Contribution

Unsure where to begin contributing to Crowdin Xamarin Forms SDK? You can start by looking through these good-first-issue and help-wanted issues:

  • Good first issue - issues which should only require a small amount of code, and a test or two.
  • Help wanted - issues which should be a bit more involved than Good first issue issues.

If you didn't find the corresponding issue and still want to contribute, please create an issue to discuss and then go ahead to create a pull request.

Pull Request Checklist

Before sending your pull requests, make sure you followed the list below:

  • Read these guidelines.
  • Read Code of Conduct.
  • Ensure that your code adheres to standard conventions, as used in the rest of the project.
  • Ensure that there are unit tests for your code.
  • Run unit tests.

Philosophy of code contribution

  • Include unit tests when you contribute new features, as they help to a) prove that your code works correctly, and b) guard against future breaking changes to lower the maintenance cost.
  • Bug fixes also generally require unit tests, because the presence of bugs usually indicates insufficient test coverage.