tahoma2d/CONTRIBUTING.md

How to contribute

This document describes some points about contribution process for OpenToonz.

Pull-requests

OpenToonz organization loves any kinds of your contributions, such as fixing typos and code refactroing. If you fixed or added something useful to the OpenToonz, please send pull-requests to us. We review the request, then we accept it, or add comments for rework, or decline it.

Workflow

0. fork OpenToonz to your GitHub account from opentoonz/opentoonz.

• (use the fork button at the https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz)

0. clone the repository.

• git clone git@github.com:your-github-account/opentoonz.git
• git remote add upstream https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz.git, additionally.

0. modify the codes.

• git checkout -b your-branch-name
  • your-branch-name is a name of your modifications, for example, fix/fatal-bugs, feature/new-useful-gui and so on.
• fix codes, then test them.
• git commit them with good commit messages.

0. pull the latest changes form the master branch of the upstream.

• git pull upstream master or git pull --rebase upstream master.
• apply clang-format with toonz/sources/.clang-format.
  • cd toonz/sources
  • ./beautification.sh or beautification.bat.
• git commit them.
• git push origin your-branch-name.

0. make a pull request.

Bugs

If you found bugs, please report details about them using issues. Then we will try to reproduce the bugs and fix them. Unfortunately, sometimes bugs can be only reproduced in your your environment, so we cannot reproduce them. We believe you can fix the bug and send us the fix.

Features

If you had an idea about a new feature, please implement it and send a pull-request to us. Even if you cannot implement the feature, you can open a topic in issues. It enables us to discuss about implementaions of the feature there.