Contributor’s guide

This document outlines how to contribute to this project. It details a code of conduct, how to submit issues, bug reports and patches.

Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

Our Pledge

In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.

Our Standards

Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:

Using welcoming and inclusive language
Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
Focusing on what is best for the community
Showing empathy towards other community members

Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:

The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
Public or private harassment
Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

Our Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Scope

This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.

Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting one of the persons listed below. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project maintainers is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.

Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the project’s leadership.

Project maintainers are encouraged to follow the spirit of the Django Code of Conduct Enforcement Manual when receiving reports.

Contacts

The following people have volunteered to be available to respond to Code of Conduct reports. They have reviewed existing literature and agree to follow the aforementioned process in good faith. They also accept OpenPGP-encrypted email:

Antoine Beaupré anarcat@debian.org

Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.4, available at http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4

Changes

The Code of Conduct was modified to refer to project maintainers instead of project team and small paragraph was added to refer to the Django enforcement manual.

Note: We have so far determined that writing an explicit enforcement policy is not necessary, considering the available literature already available online and the relatively small size of the community. This may change in the future if the community grows larger.

Patches

Patches can be submitted through merge requests on the GitLab project.

Some guidelines for patches:

A patch should be a minimal and accurate answer to exactly one identified and agreed problem.
A patch must compile cleanly and pass project self-tests on all target platforms.
A patch commit message must consist of a single short (less than 50 characters) line stating a summary of the change, followed by a blank line and then a description of the problem being solved and its solution, or a reason for the change. Write more information, not less, in the commit log.
Patches should be reviewed by at least one maintainer before being merged.

Project maintainers should merge their own patches only when they have been approved by other maintainers, unless there is no response within a reasonable timeframe (roughly one week) or there is an urgent change to be done (e.g. security or data loss issue).

As an exception to this rule, this specific document cannot be changed without the consensus of all administrators of the project.

Note: Those guidelines were inspired by the Collective Code Construct Contract. The document was found to be a little too complex and hard to read and wasn’t adopted in its entirety. See this discussion for more information.

Patch triage

You can also review existing pull requests, by cloning the contributor’s repository and testing it. If the tests do not pass (either locally or in the online Continuous Integration (CI) system), if the patch is incomplete or otherwise does not respect the above guidelines, submit a review with “changes requested” with reasoning.

Documentation

We love documentation!

The documentation mostly in the README file and can be edited online once you register.

Issues and bug reports

We want you to report issuess you find in the software. It is a recognized and important part of contributing to this project. All issues will be read and replied to politely and professionnally. Issues and bug reports should be filed on the issue tracker.

Issue triage

Issue triage is a useful contribution as well. You can review the issues in the GitHub project and, for each issue:

try to reproduce the issue, if it is not reproducible, label it with more-info and explain the steps taken to reproduce
if information is missing, label it with more-info and request specific information
if the feature request is not within the scope of the project or should be refused for other reasons, use the wontfix label and close the issue
mark feature requests with the enhancement label, bugs with bug, duplicates with duplicate and so on…

Note that some of those operations are available only to project maintainers, see below for the different statuses.

Membership

There are three levels of membership in the project, Administrator (also known as “Owner” in GitHub or GitLab), Maintainer (also known as “Member” on GitHub or “Developer” on GitLab), or regular users (everyone with or without an account). Anyone is welcome to contribute to the project within the guidelines outlined in this document, regardless of their status, and that includes regular users.

Maintainers can:

do everything regular users can
review, push and merge pull requests
edit and close issues

Administrators can:

do everything maintainers can
add new maintainers
promote maintainers to administrators

Regular users can be promoted to maintainers if they contribute to the project, either by participating in issues, documentation or pull requests.

Maintainers can be promoted to administrators when they have given significant contributions for a sustained timeframe, by consensus of the current administrators. This process should be open and decided as any other issue.

Release process

To make a release:

generate release notes with:
```
gbp dch
```
the file header will need to be moved back up to the beginning of the file. also make sure to add a summary and choose a proper version according to Semantic Versioning
tag the release according to Semantic Versioning rules:
```
git tag -s x.y.z
```

build and test the Python package:

python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
sudo pip3 install dist/*.whl
stressant --version
sudo stressant --email anarcat@anarc.at --logfile test.log --writeSize 1M --cpuBurnTime 1s --iperfTime 1
# check your emails and the logfile
sudo pip3 uninstall stressant

build and test the debian package:

git-buildpackage
sudo dpkg -i ../stressant_*.deb
stressant --version
sudo stressant --email anarcat@anarc.at --logfile test.log --writeSize 1M --cpuBurnTime 1s --iperfTime 1
sudo dpkg --remove stressant

push changes:

git push
git push --tags
twine upload dist/*
dput ../stressant*.changes

edit the tag on Gitlab, copy-paste the changelog entry and attach the signed binaries