CONTRIBUTING.md

How to contribute

Thank you for contributing to the FIWARE Step-by-Step Tutorials

Testing

To test your changes run:

npm install -C ./context-provider
npm test -C ./context-provider

This will check the text for obvious typos, informal grammar and dead links

Submitting changes

Please send a GitHub Pull Request with a clear list of what you've done (read more about pull requests. Please follow our coding conventions (below) and make sure all of your commits are atomic (one feature per commit).

Always write a clear log message for your commits. One-line messages are fine for small changes, but bigger changes should look like this:

$ git commit -m "A brief summary of the commit
>
> A paragraph describing what changed and its impact."

Separate Pull requests should be raised for code and documentation changes since code changes (including updates to docker-compose or services) require more in-depth testing, and text changes can be landed more quickly

Coding conventions

The code and Markdown files are formatted by prettier, you can also run the formatter directly:

npm run prettier -C ./context-provider
npm run prettier:text -C ./context-provider

Start reading our code and documentation and you'll get the hang of it:

• Start with appropriate badges and an introductory paragraph
• Create a three level ToC using markdown-toc
• No headings below ###
• 4th Level headings are reserved for #### Request and #### Response only
• Every cUrl request should be numbered
  • Use emoji numbers in the README.md of each individual tutorial
  • Use plain text numbers in docs/*.md used for the ReadtheDocs rendering
• Each tutorial follows a standard pattern - some sections are mandatory:
  • Architecture - include a reference diagram
  • Prerequisites (README.md only - remove from docs/*.md )
  • Start Up
• Where possible group API calls thematically, switching between two APIs doesn't help the flow of the learning material
• Use a formal writing style, use direct verbs and avoid apostrophes, when in doubt follow Chicago Manual of Style conventions.
• PRs do not need to update the Postman collection, this can be done after the code has landed