👍🎉 Thank you for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍
The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to LinuxGSM, which are hosted in the GameServerManagers 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.
- Table of Contents
- Code of Conduct
- 🎉 Bug/Enhancement Contributions 🐛
- 💻 Code Contributions
- 📘 Document Contributions
- Issue and Pull Request Labels
This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the LinuxGSM Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behaviour to daniel.gibbs@linuxgsm.com.
This section guides you through submitting a bug report for LinuxGSM. Following these guidelines help maintainers and the community understand your report 📝, reproduce the behaviour💻, and find any related reports 🔎.
Before creating bug reports, please check this list 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 the required template, the information it asks for helps us resolve issues faster.
- Check the documentation. You might be able to find the cause of the problem and fix things yourself.
- Check the support page for links to other support options.
- Perform a cursory search 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 and give it a thumbs up instead of opening a new one.
Bugs are tracked as GitHub issues. Create an issue and provide the following information by filling in the issues form.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the problem.
- Complete the user story to give a summary of the issue.
- Provide basic info to help us understand the context of the issue.
- Provide further info to give specifics and more detail.
- Give steps to reproduce the issue, allowing developers to follow steps that lead to the issue.
- Explain what you expect to happen, so we know what you think should occur.
This section guides you through submitting a feature suggestion for LinuxGSM, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines help maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions 🔎.
- Check the documentation to confirm that the enhancement doesn’t already exist.
- Check your LinuxGSM version. A newer version of LinuxGSM may already have your enhancement.
- Perform a cursory search to see if the enhancement has already been suggested. If it has and the enhancement is still open, add a comment to the existing issue and give it a thumbs up instead of opening a new one.
Features are tracked as GitHub issues. Create an issue and provide the following information by filling in the issues form.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the problem.
- Complete the user story to give a summary of the issue.
- Provide basic info to help us understand the context of the enhancement.
- Provide further info to give specifics and more detail.
- Provide any further reading materials that might assist in developing the enhancement.
This section guides you through submitting a game server request for LinuxGSM, Following these guidelines help maintainers and the community understand your game server request 📝.
- Check for existing game server requests to see if the new game server has already been suggested. If it has and if the new game server is still open, give it a thumbs up.
- Check the game server is supported on Linux, this does not include Wine servers which we do not support.
- The title should be as follows: [Server Request] Game Name
- Provide Steam App ID if applicable
- Supply any documentation/how-to guides for the game server.
LinuxGSM is a management script that acts as a wrapper around game servers. These game servers are developed by different game developers such as Valve, Epic and Facepunch to name a few.
LinuxGSM has no control over the development and limited knowledge of issues directly relating to the game servers themselves. The same also applies to any mods, add-ons, maps etc.
If there is an issue with a specific game server or mod the best action may be to contact the game/mod developers on their support forums. If it is unclear some community members should be able to help.
A list of known game developer forums is available on the LinuxGSM docs.
The process described here has several goals:
- Maintain LinuxGSM quality.
- Fix problems that are important to users.
- Engage the community in working toward the best possible LinuxGSM.
- Enable a sustainable system for LinuxGSM maintainers to review contributions.
Please follow these steps to have your contribution considered by the maintainers:
- Follow all check-list in the template
- Follow the style guides
- After you submit your pull request, verify that all status checks are passing
What if the status checks are failing? 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 before 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.
When naming a pull request to ensure that it is following Conventional Commits standards; as your pull request commits will be squashed, with the PR subject becoming the commit that is used for generating the changelog for the next release.
The pull request subject line should always be able to complete the following sentence:
If applied, this commit will your subject line here
For example:
- If applied, this commit will refactor subsystem X for readability
- If applied, this commit will update getting started documentation
- If applied, this commit will remove deprecated methods
- If applied, this commit will release version 1.0.0
- If applied, this commit will merge pull request #123 from user/branch
Notice how this doesn’t work for the other non-imperative forms:
- If applied, this commit will fixed bug with Y
- If applied, this commit will change the behaviour of X
- If applied, this commit will more fixes for broken stuff
- If applied, this commit will sweet new API methods
Below is an example of the subject line for a pull request:
feat(alerts): add slack support to alerts
fix(csgoserver): remove SteamCMD auth requirement 32-bit workaround
When a Pull Request is submitted, a series of status check tests are conducted. These tests will assess the code quality, complete CI tests etc. To get your PR merged these status checks must pass.
It is recommended that you have a testing environment available to test your code during development. To test your own code you must change some variables within the linuxgsm.sh file. This will force the use of your own code branch.
## GitHub Branch Select
# Allows for the use of different function files
# from a different repo and/or branch.
githubuser="GameServerManagers"
githubrepo="LinuxGSM"
githubbranch="master"LinuxGSM uses the Conventional commits standard to allow other developers to get easy to understand, descriptive commit messages as you develop. While it is recommended that you use this standard for your commits, as your commits will eventually be squashed when your PR is merged following this standard is not strictly enforced for commits, however, it is recommended for more complex commits.
LinuxGSM uses ShellCheck to follow BASH best practices. It is recommended that you make use of linter tools for your text editor such as linter-shellcheck. LinuxGSM uses Codacy to analyse any Pull Requests to give you feedback on code standards.
LinuxGSM also has some of its style standards that should be followed. These are available in the dev docs
As well as code contributions it is possible to contribute by writing and improving documentation. Documents contributions can be submitted similarly by submitting a Pull Request.
LinuxGSM has various documentation available to assist users and developers. LinuxGSM primarily uses GitBook which uses the Markdown document standard. LinuxGSM uses Codacy to analyse any Pull Requests to give you feedback on markup standards.
This section lists the labels we use to help us track and manage issues and pull requests.
GitHub search makes it easy to use labels for finding groups of issues or pull requests you're interested in. There are several categories of labels available:
command Labels Highlights the LinuxGSM command the Issue/PR relates to.
info Labels Labels to help pinpoint what the issue or PR relates to.
variants:
- distro
- engine
- game
- info
outcome Labels Labels that identify why an issue was closed.
status Labels Labels to update people on the status of the issue.
type Labels Labels identifying the type of issue, such as a bug, feature, refactor etc.