CONTRIBUTING.md

This contributing guide is heavily based on the excellent guide used for the Atom project.

Contributing to Fuzzy

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

The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to Fuzzy and its images, which are hosted in the Verificarlo Organization on GitHub. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.

Code of Conduct

This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Contributor Convenant Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to gkiar07@gmail.com.

How Can I Contribute?

Reporting Bugs

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

Before creating bug reports, please perform a cursory search of open issues to see if the problem has already been reported. If it has and the issue is still open, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one. as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating a bug report, please include as many details as possible. Fill out an issue with the information requested in a template to help us resolve issues faster.

Note: If you find a Closed issue that seems like it is the same thing that you're experiencing, open a new issue and include a link to the original issue in the body of your new one.

How Do I Submit A (Good) Bug Report?

Bugs are tracked as GitHub issues. Create an issue on this repository and provide the following information:

• 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. For example, start by explaining how you started Fuzzy, e.g. which command exactly you used in the terminal. When listing steps, don't just say what you did, but explain how you did it.
• Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. If you're providing snippets in the issue, use Markdown code blocks.
• 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.
• If the problem is related to performance or memory, include a detailed log of performance with and without using Fuzzy arithmetic backends with your report.

Provide more context by answering these questions:

• Did the problem start happening recently (e.g. after updating to a new version of Fuzzy) or was this always a problem?
• If the problem started happening recently, can you reproduce the problem in an older version of Fuzzy? What's the most recent version in which the problem doesn't happen?
• Can you reliably reproduce the issue? If not, provide details about how often the problem happens and under which conditions it normally happens.
• What's the name and version of the OS you're using?
• Are you running Fuzzy in Docker or Singularity? Which version of each are you using?

Suggesting Enhancements

This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion for Fuzzy, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions 🔎.

Before creating enhancement suggestions, please check perform a cursory search of open issues as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating an enhancement suggestion, please include as many details as possible. Fill in an issue including the steps that you imagine you would take if the feature you're requesting existed.

How Do I Submit A (Good) Enhancement Suggestion?

Enhancement suggestions are tracked as GitHub issues. Create an issue 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.
• Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include copy/pasteable snippets which you use in those examples, as Markdown code blocks.
• Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.
• Explain why this enhancement would be useful to most Fuzzy users and is something that can or should be implemented.

Your First Code Contribution

Unsure where to begin contributing to Atom? You can start by looking through these beginner and help-wanted issues:

• [Beginner issues][beginner] - issues which should only require a few lines of code, and a test or two.
• [Help wanted issues][help-wanted] - issues which should be a bit more involved than beginner issues.

Pull Requests

The process described here has several goals:

• Maintain Fuzzy's quality
• Fix problems that are important to users
• Enable a sustainable system for Fuzzy's maintainers to review contributions

Please follow these steps to have your contribution considered by the maintainers:

1. Follow all instructions in the template
2. After you submit your pull request, verify that all status checks are passing. If a status check is failing, and you believe that the failure is unrelated to your change, please leave a comment on the pull request explaining why you believe the failure is unrelated. A maintainer will re-run the status check for you. If we conclude that the failure was a false positive, then we will open an issue to track that problem with our status check suite.

While the prerequisites above must be satisfied prior to having your pull request reviewed, the reviewer(s) may ask you to complete additional design work, tests, or other changes before your pull request can be ultimately accepted.