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Contribution guidelines

We really like contributions and bug reports, in fact the project wouldn't have got to this stage without them. We do have a few guidelines to bear in mind.

Community

We have two Slack channels for the Prototype kit. You'll need a government email address to join them.

Raising bugs

When raising bugs please explain the issue in good detail and provide a guide to how to replicate it. When describing the bug it's useful to follow the format:

  • what you did
  • what you expected to happen
  • what happened

Suggesting features

Please raise feature requests as issues before contributing any code.

This ensures they are discussed properly before any time is spent on them.

GOV.UK Elements

The project contains code taken from the GOV.UK Elements project. Please check that any issues related to that code are raised with that project, not this one.

Contributing code

Indentation and whitespace

Your JavaScript code should pass linting.

For anything else, maintain 2-space, soft-tabs only indentation. No trailing whitespace.

Versioning

Follow the guidelines on semver.org for assigning version numbers.

Versions should only be changed in a commit of their own, in a pull request of their own. This alerts team members to the new version and allows for last-minute scrutiny before the new version is released. Also, by raising a separate pull request, we avoid version number conflicts between feature branches.

Commit hygiene

Please see our git style guide which describes how we prefer git history and commit messages to read.