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Contributing and Maintaining

First, thank you for taking the time to contribute!

The following is a set of guidelines for contributors as well as information and instructions around our maintenance process. The two are closely tied together in terms of how we all work together and set expectations, so while you may not need to know everything in here to submit an issue or pull request, it's best to keep them in the same document.

Ways to contribute

Contributing isn't just writing code - it's anything that improves the project. All contributions for Simple Local Avatars are managed right here on GitHub. Here are some ways you can help:

Reporting bugs

If you're running into an issue with the plugin, please take a look through existing issues and open a new one if needed. If you're able, include steps to reproduce, environment information, and screenshots/screencasts as relevant.

Suggesting enhancements

New features and enhancements are also managed via issues.

Pull requests

Pull requests represent a proposed solution to a specified problem. They should always reference an issue that describes the problem and contains discussion about the problem itself. Discussion on pull requests should be limited to the pull request itself, i.e. code review.

For more on how 10up writes and manages code, check out our 10up Engineering Best Practices.

Workflow

The develop branch is the development branch which means it contains the next version to be released. stable contains the current latest release and trunk contains the corresponding stable development version. Always work on the develop branch and open up PRs against develop.

Release instructions

  • Branch: Starting from develop, cut a release branch named release/X.Y.Z for your changes.
  • Version bump: Bump the version number in package.json, readme.txt, and simple-local-avatars.php if it does not already reflect the version being released. Update both the plugin "Version:" property and the plugin SLA_VERSION constant in simple-local-avatars.php.
  • Changelog: Add/update the changelog in both CHANGELOG.md and readme.txt. (Recommendation to use: https://github.com/10up/changelog-generator)
  • Props: update CREDITS.md with any new contributors, and confirm maintainers are accurate. (Recommendation to use: https://github.com/10up/credits-generator)
  • New files: Check to be sure any new files/paths that are unnecessary in the production version are included in .distignore.
  • Readme updates: Make any other readme changes as necessary. README.md is geared toward GitHub and readme.txt contains WordPress.org-specific content. The two are slightly different.
  • Make sure the release date is added in the CHANGELOG.md.
  • Before proceeding to the next step, ensure you pull the latest changes from the develop branch locally. This will bring in the changes from the merged release PR.
  • Merge: Make a non-fast-forward merge from your release branch to develop (or merge the pull request), then do the same for develop into trunk (git checkout trunk && git merge --no-ff develop). trunk contains the latest stable release.
  • Test: Run through common tasks while on trunk to be sure it functions correctly.
  • Push: Push your trunk branch to GitHub (e.g. git push origin trunk).
  • Test the pre-release ZIP locally by downloading it from the Build release zip action artifact to ensure the plugin doesn't break after release.
  • Release: Create a new release, naming the tag and the release with the new version number, and targeting the trunk branch. Paste the changelog from CHANGELOG.md into the body of the release and include a link to the closed issues on the milestone.
  • SVN: Wait for the GitHub Action to finish deploying to the WordPress.org repository. If all goes well, users with SVN commit access for that plugin will receive an emailed diff of changes.
  • Check WordPress.org: Ensure that the changes are live on https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-local-avatars/. This may take a few minutes.
  • Close the milestone: Edit the milestone with the release date (in the Due date (optional) field) and link to the GitHub release (in the Description field), then close the milestone.
  • Punt incomplete items: If any open issues or PRs which were milestoned for X.Y.Z do not make it into the release, update their milestone to X.Y.Z+1, X.Y+1.0, X+1.0.0 or Future Release.