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Contributing to BBB for Nextcloud

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

⚠️ Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

There are plenty of ways to give something back to the open source community. Following you find a couple of them for BBB for Nextcloud and no matter which you choose, we appreciate every help 👏.

🐛 Reporting a bug

Every application depends on people who are testing it in different environments and reporting misbehavior or options to enhance the application further. To help developers to fix your issue faster, please open a new issue for every bug or feature request and follow the guidelines below:

  • A issue should be self contained, so that everyone can keep track of changes and discussions.
  • Fill the issue template. It requests important information and omitting it, delays the whole process.
  • Provide as many information as you can. Screenshots, Javascript logs and further information is super helpful.
  • Please be kind. Remember that most developers are working in there free time to make this app better.

📄 Contribute code

Every code contribution is considered valuable, independent from there size and small changes can also be contributed directly via Github:

  1. Browse to the desired file via Github.
  2. Click on the ✏️ on the top right corner of the file.
  3. Make your changes.
  4. Add a meaning full commit message, prefixed with either fix: or feat: (e.g. fix: room recordings).
    type must be one of 'l10n', 'release', 'build', 'ci', 'chore', 'docs', 'feat' , 'fix', 'perf', 'refactor', 'revert', 'style', 'test', 'example'
  5. Submit your changes.

If you want to contribute larger changes, we recommend the following approach which requires basic git knowledge.

  1. Fork the repository.
  2. Install all dependencies with make dev-setup.
  3. Create a local branch for your fix or feature (e.g. fix-recording).
  4. Test your changes with yarn build (you can also use yarn watch).
  5. Commit your changes and push your created branch to your fork.
  6. Open a new pull request into our master branch.

We use Conventional Commits, but the precommit hook should mention any issues preventing the merge of your pull request.

🌻 Translate

We are using Nextclouds Transifex setup to translate this application.

📢 Promote

You like this app and you use a blog, Twitter, Facebook or any other social network? It would be great if you could write a small post about BBB for Nextcloud.

💵 Sponsoring

If you like to sponsor a specific feature, bug fix or the project in general you can also contact any maintainer of this application to support open source development.