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Contributing to Marker

Thank you for your interest in contributing to Marker. All contributions are appreciated!

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Code of Conduct

This project follows Rust's Code of Conduct. See Marker's Code of Conduct file for more information.

Ways to Contribute

Create an Issue

Issues are the right place to start if you've found a bug, want to suggest a feature, or request help. Before you create a new issue, it would be a big help if you checked the existing issues to see if the bug, feature, or question already exists.

  • Bug Reports

    If you find a bug, please try to include as much information as possible. It would be perfect if the following points were addressed:

    • The bug you found
    • An example how it can be reproduced
    • The faulty output from Marker
    • The version of Marker you're using
    • The toolchain you're using

  • Feature Requests

    If you want to suggest a feature, please also explain what you want to archive with it. It would be perfect if the following information were included:

    • The feature description
    • The motivation behind this feature
    • Which component should provide the feature
    • Any additional information that can be useful for development

  • Questions

    If you have a question, please always ask. In your question, it would be good if you included the following information, if applicable:

    • Your question
    • The version of Marker you're using
    • The component of Marker you're asking about

Code contributions

Contributing code to Marker is a great way to help. The following is a quick overview of the steps involved in contributing code.

Select a Task

If you're looking for something to work on, please check out Marker's open issues. You can also filter for the E-good-first-issue label to find easier issues that give a gentle introduction to Marker's code.

You can also work on tasks not yet tracked in the [open issue]. For this, please refer to the Create an Issue section. Generally speaking, bug fixes, spelling corrections, or new utilities are always welcome. Changes to the public interface should first be discussed in an issue to ensure that the update will later be accepted.

Once you've decided on an issue, please comment on it and say that you want to work on it. You can also ping any active maintainer to receive mentoring instructions.

Fork and Clone Marker

To get started, you have to fork Marker and clone the repository. The following is a quick overview of the involved steps:

  1. Fork the project on GitHub.
  2. Clone the repository into your preferred dev environment.
  3. Add the rust-marker/marker repository as an upstream remote: 
    git remote add upstream [email protected]:rust-marker/marker.git
  4. Run cargo check to install the required toolchain and ensure that everything is set up correctly.

That's it. Now you're ready to drive into your first change.

Rust-Analyzer Setup

It's recommended to set the rust-analyzer.rustc.source configuration, to allow autocompletion for rustc types. Rust-Analyzer needs to be restarted, for the change to take affect:

{
    "rust-analyzer.rustc.source": "discover"
}

While working on the API, it can also be helpful to enable inlay type hints for elided lifetimes in function signatures. See rust-analyzer.inlayHints.lifetimeElisionHints.enable:

{
    "rust-analyzer.inlayHints.lifetimeElisionHints.enable": "skip_trivial",
}

Change Marker

The type of change and recommended documentation to read depends on the component you want to work on. Here is a collection of useful links. Note that most of these are not targeted towards Marker, but they're still super useful:

Marker is currently missing documentation on how to best approach issues in other components. You're always welcome to reach out and ask for advice. You can also search the code base and reference existing code.

If you want to add a new dependency to any component in Marker, please first ask in the issue if the dependency in question will be accepted.

Please ensure that you've also read Marker's Style Guide.

Test Marker

Marker is mostly tested by printing the AST notes. Please check out the marker_uilints crate for more information on how:

Submit a Pull Request

Once you believe that your update is ready, please create a pull request in the rust-marker/marker repository. All relevant information should be included in your PR description. A maintainer will assign themselves to your PR. If you haven't gotten a response within a week, please ping someone from the team.

Every PR is tested to ensure that all tests pass, the documentation can be built, everything is formatted, and relevant crates can be built on the stable toolchain. If any CI check fails, please try to fix it. The log will usually contain information on how to best approach the problem. You can also ask for help in the pull request.

The CI only runs on Ubuntu. Only the final merge is run on all supported platforms to save CI time. If your change should be tested on all platforms early, you can ping a maintainer to kick off a test run.

Test Marker

The current versions of Marker are intended for testing. All feedback is appreciated, ranging from the first impression to a report of what you like and dislike. Marker relies on feedback to improve. The goal is to create the best linting tool that feels good and welcoming to everyone, and this can't be done without the support of the community.

The following is a small collection of ways you can test Marker right now:

  1. Run Marker

    Simply run Marker on any Rust project you can find and report bugs or unexpected behavior. Once you've installed Marker, you can use the following command to run Marker with the marker_lints lint crate:

```sh
cargo marker --lints "marker_lints = '0.5.0'"
```

If you find any bugs or unexpected behavior, please [create an issue]. [rust-marker/marker#198] is a collection of all crates that were linted successfully. You can also add your own crates to the ever-growing list by commenting on the issue.

  1. Write a Lint

    Marker is an interface for creating lints. The linting API is an essential part of Marker that should feel natural and clear. If you have the time, please just try to create a lint. Write down what features were hard to find or are just missing completely right now.

    If you need a lint idea, you can potentially pick a user story for Marker or create a lint based on an existing Clippy lint.

    It would also be a big help if you could add the lint to the example lints repository.

  2. Fuzz Marker

    All public interfaces of Marker should be resilient and, in the worst case, terminate with a helpful error message. One way to test Marker is to just call every function in the public interface with every input you can think of.

    If you find any bugs or unexpected behavior, please create an issue.

Review Pull Requests

Software engineering and open-source are team sports. Pull requests are intended to collect feedback and discuss changes before they're added to the master branch. Any feedback or suggestions are valued and treated equally. Please don't hesitate to involve yourself in discussions on pull requests.

Style Guide

Rebase Workflow

Marker uses a Rebase Workflow, meaning that all branches, besides the master branch, should be updated using a rebase. This workflow makes the git history linear and easier to follow. It also aligns Marker with other Rust projects.

This policy means that PRs with merge commits will generally not be merged. Instead, you'll be asked to remove the merge commits and update your branch with a rebase. You can still create a PR to get early feedback or support.

You can also check out rustc's documentation about rebasing and this workflow:

Commit Messages

To better track what component of Marker has been affected by a commit, it's recommended to start the commit message with the name of the component or area. As an example, if you update an expression in the API, the message could be API: Update `xyz` expression, clearly indicating that the commit targets the API. The following prefixes are commonly used:

  • API: Changes targeting the base API (the marker_api crate)
  • utils: Changes targeting additional utilities for the API (the marker_utils crate)
  • cargo: Changes targeting Cargo's CLI (the cargo_marker crate)
  • adapter: Changes targeting the adapter for drivers (the marker_adapter crate)
  • rustc: Changes targeting rustc's driver (the marker_rustc_driver crate)
  • uitest: Changes to Marker's ui-test setup (the marker_uitest crate)
  • lints: Changes to lints for Marker (the marker_lints crate)
  • uilints: Changes to Marker's uilints for testing (the marker_uilints crate)
  • Doc: Any documentation updates
  • CI: Any CI updates
  • Chore: General chores that target basically everything, like releases and nightly bumps

It's generally also recommended to split changes based on the area. If you, for instance, add a new expression to Marker, you can first commit the API changes (including doc comments) and then add the rustc backend and tests in a second commit. For example, adding the cool expression might have this history:

  1. API: Add new `cool` expression to the API
  2. Rustc: Backend for the `cool` expression

Changes affecting multiple components can either just name the main area or list multiple:

  • Like this: API: Add `MarkerContext::something` function
  • Or this: API, adapter, rustc: Add `MarkerContext::something` function

Formatting

Everything in Marker should be formatted with rustfmt, this is also actively checked in the CI. You can format your code with the following command:

cargo fmt

rustfmt currently struggles with if-let chains. As a result, functions with these are not automatically formatted. If you use them, please make sure to manually format the function as best as you can.

Jokes

Contributing should be fun. Public, user-facing documentation for Marker should be written in a serious manner. In internal functions or UI tests, it's fine to include jokes, puns, or leave some comments about the journey that led you to this magnificent yet horrifying hack that still somehow works.

The repository already contains some small easter eggs, admittedly in the weird humor of @xFrednet, but the point still stands. Let's develop Marker together and have fun at the same time. :D

Contact

If you have a question or need assistance with your contribution, don't hesitate to ask! You're always welcome to create an issue or a PR. Using a public channel allows future contributors to also find the information if they get stuck.

You can also contact me, @xFrednet, directly:

Legal Notice

Rust-marker is distributed under the terms of the MIT or Apache License (Version 2.0). All contributions fall under these licenses, and as such, it's expected that you authored 100% of the content you contribute and that you have the necessary rights to the content.