nerd-fonts/contributing.md

Contributing Guide

Working on your first Pull Request? You can learn how from this free series How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub

How to contribute summary

• Fork the project and submit a Pull Request (PR)
  • Explain what the PR fixes or improves
  • Screenshots for bonus points
• Use sensible commit messages
  • If your PR fixes a separate issue number, include it in the commit message
• Use a sensible number of commit messages as well
  • e.g. Your PR should not have 100s of commits

How to add yourself to the contributors (give yourself attribution)

Don't forget to give yourself credit! Make sure you add yourself to the contributors list that will eventually propagate to NerdFonts.com

Either:

• Invoke the @all-contributors bot by commenting on your Pull Request or Issue.
• Shallow clone repo and exeucte all-contributors add <YOUR_GITHUB_HANDLE> <CONTRIBUTION_TYPE>

Common types for this project include: code, doc, translation, review .For full list of contribution types see: https://allcontributors.org/docs/en/emoji-key

Steps for updating an existing font

1. Update original (unpatched) version

• Copy and replace the existing unpatched version of the font and any readme and/or license files in the src/unpatched-fonts/XYZ-font directory
  • e.g. Updating XYZ Font, update files in directory src/unpatched-fonts/xyz/{PUT FONT FILES HERE}
  • Make sure to update the correct subfolders for each font style (e.g. src/unpatched-fonts/xyz/bold/{BOLD FONT FILES HERE})

2. Execute basic testing

• Do a basic test with the new font to ensure it patches correctly and generates a new font file, e.g.
  • fontforge --script ./font-patcher src/unpatched-fonts/XYZ/XYZ.ttf --complete
  • Make sure to then delete this new font file if it is in the repository (all patched fonts should be generated in the patched-fonts directory)

3. Run build scripts

• When fairly satisfied the font patches correctly, run the following scripts in this order:
  • Copy all the unpatched readmes to the patched location with additional info on variations appended:
    • cd bin/scripts
    • ./standardize-and-complete-readmes.sh XYZ
  • Patch all of the variations/options, e.g.
    • ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh XYZ

Steps for adding a new font or removing an existing font

• For removal of a font skip to Step #4

1. Verify license

• Check the license even allows the font to be modified and shared

2. Add original (unpatched) version

• Add the unpatched version of the font and any readme and/or license files to the src/unpatched-fonts/ directory inside a new directory
  • e.g. Adding XYZ Font, create directory src/unpatched-fonts/xyz/{PUT FONT FILES HERE}
  • Try to make subfolders for each font style (e.g. src/unpatched-fonts/xyz/bold/{BOLD FONT FILES HERE})

3. Execute basic testing

• Do a basic test with the new font to ensure it patches correctly and generates a new font file, e.g.
  • fontforge --script ./font-patcher src/unpatched-fonts/XYZ/XYZ.ttf --complete
  • Make sure to then delete this new font file if it is in the repository (all patched fonts should be generated in the patched-fonts directory)

4. Run build scripts

• When fairly satisfied the font patches correctly, run the following scripts in this order:
  • Copy all the unpatched readmes to the patched location with additional info on variations appended:
    • ./standardize-and-complete-readmes.sh
  • Patch all of the variations/options, e.g.
    • ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh XYZ

5. Update readme

• Add the new font to the table of Patched Fonts
• Update the "counts" in the Features Section
  • You can get this information by simply passing a second param to the "all patcher": ./gotta-patch-em-all-font-patcher\!.sh "" info
    • "X already patched font families" -> Give exact number from 'typefaces' line
    • "Over X unique combinations/variations..." -> round down to nearest hundred from 'variation' line
    • "Over X glyphs/icons combined" -> manual process for now (@todo)
• Update the "counts" in the Combinations Section
  • Again, get this info from the "all patcher"

Things to keep in mind

• Smaller Pull Requests are likely to be merged more quickly than bigger changes
• This project is using a KISS Workflow
  • Pull Requests and bugfixes are directly merged into the default branch after sanity testing
  • The default branch is basically consider the main developer branch
    • We no longer wait to get changes into the default branch when there is a release/milestone/version!
  • the release branches and version tags are considered stable and frozen
• This project is using Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
  • If a bugfix or PR is not trivial it will likely end up in the next MINOR version
  • If a bugfix or PR is trivial or critical it will likely end up in the next PATCH version
• Useful Pull Requests will get merged in eventually
  • E.g. see how many have already been merged vs. still open

Commit messages

• Squashing to 1 commit is not required at this time
• Use sensible commit messages (when in doubt: git log)
• Use a sensible number of commit messages
• If your PR fixes a specific issue number, include it in the commit message: "Fixes XYZ error (fixes #123)"

Code standards

Shell Scripts

• Follow ShellCheck - A shell script static analysis tool
• Try to follow Google's Shell Style Guide

Python

• Use 4 spaces for indentation
• Consider PEP8 and other (@todo)