CONTRIBUTING GUIDELINES

Oh-My-Zsh is a community-driven project. Contribution is welcome, encouraged, and appreciated. It is also essential for the development of the project.

First, please take a moment to review our code of conduct.

These guidelines are an attempt at better addressing the huge amount of pending issues and pull requests. Please read them closely.

Foremost, be so kind as to search. This ensures any contribution you would make is not already covered.

Issues
- You have a problem
- You have a suggestion
Pull Requests
Information sources (aka search)

BONUS: Volunteering

Reporting Issues

You have a problem

Please be so kind as to search for any open issue already covering your problem.

If you find one, comment on it so we can know there are more people experiencing it.

If not, look at the Troubleshooting page for instructions on how to gather data to better debug your problem.

Then, you can go ahead and create an issue with as much detail as you can provide. It should include the data gathered as indicated above, along with:

How to reproduce the problem
What the correct behavior should be
What the actual behavior is

Please copy to anyone relevant (eg plugin maintainers) by mentioning their GitHub handle (starting with @) in your message.

We will do our very best to help you.

You have a suggestion

Please be so kind as to search for any open issue already covering your suggestion.

If you find one, comment on it so we can know there are more people supporting it.

If not, you can go ahead and create an issue. Please copy to anyone relevant (eg plugin maintainers) by mentioning their GitHub handle (starting with @) in your message.

Submitting Pull Requests

Getting started

You should be familiar with the basics of contributing on GitHub and have a fork properly set up.

You MUST always create PRs with a dedicated branch based on the latest upstream tree.

If you create your own PR, please make sure you do it right. Also be so kind as to reference any issue that would be solved in the PR description body, for instance "Fixes #XXXX" for issue number XXXX.

You have a solution

Please be so kind as to search for any open issue already covering your problem, and any pending/merged/rejected PR covering your solution.

If the solution is already reported, try it out and +1 the pull request if the solution works ok. On the other hand, if you think your solution is better, post it with a reference to the other one so we can have both solutions to compare.

If not, then go ahead and submit a PR. Please copy to anyone relevant (e.g. plugin maintainers) by mentioning their GitHub handle (starting with @) in your message.

You have an addition

Please do not send themes for now.

Please be so kind as to search for any pending, merged or rejected Pull Requests covering or related to what you want to add.

If you find one, try it out and work with the author on a common solution.

If not, then go ahead and submit a PR. Please copy to anyone relevant (eg plugin maintainers) by mentioning their GitHub handle (starting with @) in your message.

For any extensive change, eg a new plugin, you will have to find testers to +1 your PR.

Use the Search, Luke

May the Force (of past experiences) be with you

GitHub offers many search features to help you check whether a similar contribution to yours already exists. Please search before making any contribution, it avoids duplicates and eases maintenance. Trust me, that works 90% of the time.

You can also take a look at the FAQ to be sure your contribution has not already come up.

If all fails, your thing has probably not been reported yet, so you can go ahead and create an issue or submit a PR.

You have spare time to volunteer

Very nice!! :)

Please have a look at the Volunteer page for instructions on where to start and more.

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