CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributor Guidelines

We value and encourage contribution from the community. To reduce friction in this process, we have collected some best-practices for contributors:

• Testing. Before making a pull-request (PR), please make sure that you have added sufficient test coverage to your changes and that you have run the test suite. You can run tests by invoking make test in the project root. Code coverage statistics can be compiled by running sbcl --load coverage-report.lisp in the coverage-report directory.
• Documentation. Provide concise but clear documentation for your changes. In general, all public functions (those exported in package.lisp) must have docstrings. Internal functions should usually be documented though it is less important. Documentation should also be provided as comments to your code. In particular, non-obvious code should be accompanied by detailed explanation of its working.
• Pull Request. The typical workflow for contributing to an open-source project is
  1. Create a fork of the project.
  2. Create a branch for your work. This should be appropriately named, often with a descriptive prefix of feature/ or fix/.
  3. Create a PR to the original project. The PR should have a concise title stating the intent of the PR, followed by a more detailed description of the proposed changes including arguments for those changes.
  4. Your code will be reviewed. You should participate in the review, making changes where suggested and pushing them to the PR branch.
  5. If all goes well, your code will be merged and you will be attributed in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS file.
• Style. In general, follow the Google Common-Lisp style guide. If there is an inconsistency between the style guide and neighboring code, follow the style of the neighboring code. Use code formatting (indentation) that is equivalent to that of GNU Emacs' common-lisp-mode.
• Be polite.