Contribution guidelines#

Any issues or suggestions are welcome at https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool or via e-mail to one of the maintainers. General inquiries can be sent to reuse@lists.fsfe.org.

Code of conduct#

Interaction within this project is covered by the FSFE’s Code of Conduct.

Pull requests#

Pull requests are generally welcome and encouraged, but please beware that they may be closed as out-of-scope or otherwise not aligned with the design goals. To be safe, open an issue and engage in dialogue before beginning to implement a feature that may not be accepted.

When making a pull request, don’t hesitate to add yourself to the AUTHORS.rst file and the copyright headers of the files you touch.

Translation#

Translations are welcome at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/fsfe/reuse-tool/. If you need additional help to get started, don’t hesitate to get in touch with the maintainers.

Broader instructions on how to help the FSFE translate things into local languages can be found at https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/. The translators keep in touch with the translators@lists.fsfe.org mailing list.

Local development#

Starting local development is very simple, just execute the following commands:

git clone git@github.com:fsfe/reuse-tool.git
cd reuse-tool/
poetry install  # You may need to install poetry using your package manager.
poetry run pre-commit install  # Using poetry is optional here if you already have pre-commit.

Next, you’ll find the following commands handy:

  • poetry run reuse

  • poetry run pytest

  • poetry run pylint src

  • poetry run mypy

  • make docs

Development conventions#

Poetry#

Because our downstreams may not have a very recent version of Poetry, we should target poetry-core>=1.1.0 and poetry~=1.2.0 when interacting with Poetry, especially when generating the poetry.lock file. You can pip install poetry~=1.2.0 to ascertain that you always get this right.

In order to update the poetry.lock file while changing as few lines as possible, run poetry lock --no-update.

Release checklist#

  • Verify changelog

  • Create branch release-x.y.z

  • bumpversion --new-version x.y.z minor

  • make update-resources

  • Alter changelog

  • Do some final tweaks/bugfixes (and alter changelog)

  • make test-release

  • pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple reuse and test the package.

  • Once everything is good, git tag -s vx.y.z. Minimal tag message.

  • git push origin vx.y.z

  • make release

  • git checkout main

  • git merge release-x.y.z

  • git push origin main

  • Create a release on GitHub.

  • Update readthedocs (if not happened automatically)

  • Update API worker: https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/api-worker#user-content-server

  • Make sure package is updated in distros (contact maintainers)