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Contributing to Casper Validator Selection Tool

The following is a set of rules and guidelines for contributing to this repo. Please feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.

Submitting issues

If you have questions about how to use Casper Validator Selection Tool, please direct these to the CSPR Developers group.

Guidelines

  • Please search the existing issues first, it's likely that your issue was already reported or even fixed.
    • Go to the main page of the repository, click "issues" and type any word in the top search/command bar.
    • You can also filter by appending e. g. "state:open" to the search string.
    • More info on search syntax within GitHub

Contributing to Casper Validator Selection Tool

All contributions to this repository are considered to be licensed under Apache License 2.0.

Workflow for bug fixes:

  • Check open issues and unmerged pull requests to make sure the topic is not already covered elsewhere
  • Fork the repository
  • Do your changes on your fork
  • Make sure to add or update relevant test cases
  • Create a pull request, with a suitable title and description, referring to the related issue

Workflow for new features or enhancements:

  • Check open issues and unmerged pull requests to make sure the topic is not already covered elsewhere
  • If the feature or the enhancement is not in alignment with the latest/current delegation policy of Casper Association, you need to first propose a change through onchain voting.
  • Then fork the repo
  • Do your changes on your fork
  • Make sure to add or update relevant test cases
  • Create a pull request, with a suitable title and description, referring to the related issue and/or the onchain vote.

Sign your work

We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) as a additional safeguard for the Casper Validator Selection Tool project. This is a well established and widely used mechanism to assure contributors have confirmed their right to license their contribution under the project's license. Please read developer-certificate-of-origin. If you can certify it, then just add a line to every git commit message:

  Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>

Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions). If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your commit automatically with git commit -s. You can also use git aliases like git config --global alias.ci 'commit -s'. Now you can commit with git ci and the commit will be signed.