Mojolicious::Guides::Contributing - Contributing to Mojolicious

  1. OVERVIEW
  2. PERL FOUNDATION BOYCOTT
  3. REPORTING BUGS
    1. Reporting security issues
  4. RESOLVING ISSUES
  5. CONTRIBUTING DOCUMENTATION
  6. CONTRIBUTING CODE
    1. Mission statement
    2. Rules
    3. Voting Rules
  7. CODE OF CONDUCT
  8. FORK POLICY
  9. MORE
  10. SUPPORT

OVERVIEW

There are many ways to contribute to Mojolicious, this guide will show you a few of them.

PERL FOUNDATION BOYCOTT

Due to a lack of transparency and accountability of and by the board, we are boycotting The Perl Foundation. Recent events regarding the Community Affairs Team have unfortunately shown that it does not represent values such as openness and inclusion to the same extent we do anymore. The Mojolicious Project and its core team will therefore be withdrawing from Foundation involvement and Foundation-run activities, and we ask you to cease personal donations to the Foundation until it has been reformed.

Members of the Mojolicious community are encouraged to politely, but firmly, advocate for the same values in a way that they see fit, while not violating the Mojolicious Code of Conduct.

REPORTING BUGS

We use the GitHub issue tracker, so you'll need to create a (free) GitHub account to be able to submit issues, comments and pull requests.

First of all, make sure you are using the latest version of Mojolicious, it is quite likely that your bug has already been fixed. If that doesn't help, take a look at the list of currently open issues, perhaps it has already been reported by someone else and you can just add a comment confirming it.

If it hasn't been reported yet, try to prepare a test case demonstrating the bug, you are not expected to fix it yourself, but you'll have to make sure the developers can replicate your problem. Sending in your whole application generally does more harm than good, the t directory of this distribution has many good examples for how to do it right. Writing a test is usually the hardest part of fixing a bug, so the better your test case the faster it can be fixed. ;)

And don't forget to add a descriptive title and text, when you create a new issue. If your issue does not contain enough information or is unintelligible, it might get closed pretty quickly. But don't be disheartened, if there's new activity it will get reopened just as quickly.

Reporting security issues

Please report security issues directly to Sebastian Riedel ([email protected]), and give us a few days to develop and release a proper fix.

RESOLVING ISSUES

There are many ways in which you can help us resolve existing issues on the GitHub issue tracker.

Can you replicate the problem on your computer? Add a comment saying that you're seeing the same. Perhaps you can provide additional information that will make it easier for others to replicate the problem, maybe even contribute a better test case.

And for all code contributions we very much appreciate additional testing and code review, just add a comment to show your approval or to point out flaws that need to be addressed.

CONTRIBUTING DOCUMENTATION

One of the easiest ways to contribute to Mojolicious is through documentation improvements. While the Mojolicious::Guides are carefully curated by the core team, everybody with a (free) GitHub account can make changes and add new information to the Mojolicious wiki.

Pull requests with additions or changes to the documentation included in the Mojolicious distribution follow the same rules as code contributions. Please don't send pull requests for overly simplistic changes, such as the addition of a comma or semicolon.

CONTRIBUTING CODE

All code contributions should be sent as GitHub pull requests. But please try to avoid pull requests with very simplistic changes, such as a single typo fix somewhere in the documentation or comments.

An expressive title and detailed description are invaluable during the review process, which usually ends when members of the community have voiced their opinions and the core team reviewed the changes. For a pull request to get merged it requires three positive reviews from voting members of the core team.

All code changes should emulate the style of the surrounding code, include tests that fail without them, and update relevant documentation.

While the Mojolicious distribution covers a wide range of features, we are rather conservative when it comes to adding new ones. So if your contribution is not a simple bug fix, it is strongly recommended that you discuss it in advance in the Forum or the official IRC channel #mojo on irc.libera.chat (chat now!), to avoid unnecessary work and to increase its chances of getting accepted.

The following mission statement and rules are the foundation of all Mojo and Mojolicious development. Please make sure that your contribution aligns well with them before sending a pull request.

Mission statement

Mojo is a web development toolkit, with all the basic tools and helpers needed to write simple web applications and higher level web frameworks, such as Mojolicious.

All components should be reusable in other projects, and in a UNIXish way only loosely coupled.

Especially for people new to Perl it should be as easy as possible to install Mojolicious and get started. Writing web applications can be one of the most fun ways to learn a language!

For developers of other web frameworks, it should be possible to reuse all the infrastructure and just consider the higher levels of the Mojolicious distribution an example application.

Rules

General rules for the project:

Voting Rules

The voting process used to make decisions for the project:

CODE OF CONDUCT

Like the technical community as a whole, the Mojolicious team and community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working on every aspect of the mission - including mentorship, teaching, and connecting people.

Diversity is one of our huge strengths, but it can also lead to communication issues and unhappiness. To that end, we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to. This code applies equally to founders, mentors and those seeking help and guidance.

This isn't an exhaustive list of things that you can't do. Rather, take it in the spirit in which it’s intended - a guide to make it easier to enrich all of us and the technical communities in which we participate.

This code of conduct applies to all spaces managed by the Mojolicious project. This includes IRC, the mailing lists, the issue tracker, and any other forums created by the project team which the community uses for communication. In addition, violations of this code outside these spaces may affect a person's ability to participate within them.

If you believe someone is violating the code of conduct, we ask that you report it by emailing Joel Berger ([email protected]) or other members of the team.

FORK POLICY

The Mojolicious core team believes that there is a lot of value in the entire toolkit being a unified project. Forks drain resources from a project, not just mindshare but also very valuable bug reports and patches, which can have very serious security implications. Therefore we ask that you please not publically fork pieces of the Mojolicious distribution without our consent. As doing so is against our express wishes, individuals who engage in unauthorized forking may be denied from participating in community sponsored spaces.

For developers considering the use of a forked module, we strongly recommend that you make yourself familiar with its history and track record. While many parts of Mojolicious have been forked in the past, very few forks have been able to keep up with Mojolicious development, and most are missing critical bug fixes.

MORE

You can continue with Mojolicious::Guides now or take a look at the Mojolicious wiki, which contains a lot more documentation and examples by many different authors.

SUPPORT

If you have any questions the documentation might not yet answer, don't hesitate to ask in the Forum, on IRC, or Matrix.