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Guide for Contributing

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If you have any comment or advice, please report your issue, or make any change as you wish and submit an PR.

For Non-Developers

Whether you are a designer, a product manager or a regular user, you can contribute to the Chart Knowledge Base. We value your participation and look forward to working with you to build it together.

If you don't already have a GitHub account, we recommend that you get yourself a GitHub Account first. This step is well worth it.

After that, you can help us by creating an issue or a pull request.

Create an Discussion

GitHub Discussions is like a message board where you can share ideas, ask questions, answer queries, exchange experiences, and more. Here are the basic steps for submitting discussions:

1. New discussion: Switch to the Discussions tab and click the New discussion button on the right to create a new discussion.

   
   
   

2. Submit discussion: Select an appropriate Discussion category and click Get Start to go to the discussion fill page. The description here should include the topic you want to discuss, your question or idea. Once completed, click Start discussion to submit your discussion.

   

Submit a Pull Request

If you have the ability to write code, or don't feel resistant to learning some code, and want to put your suggestions into clear code form (or if you want to help us save time), that's great! Please try submitting a pull request, it will help us to process your suggestions faster and implement them into the project quickly.

If you don't know what a pull request is, please refer to: Learn more about pull request.

For Developers

Language

• All code and comments must be written in English.
• The description language in all issues and Pull Requests is recommended to be English, and in some cases Chinese can also be selected for description accuracy.

We give priority to English to serve a wider range of developers, to deepen international cooperation and co-construction, and to avoid duplicate submissions between different languages.

Reporting New Issues

• Please specify what kind of issue it is.
• Before you report an issue, please search for related issues. Make sure you are not going to open a duplicate issue.
• Explain your purpose clearly in tags(see Useful Tags), title, or content.

AntV group members will confirm the purpose of the issue, replace more accurate tags for it, identify related milestone, and assign developers working on it.

Submitting Code

Pull Request Guide

If you are developer of AntV repo and you are willing to contribute, feel free to create a new branch, finish your modification and submit a PR. AntV group will review your work and merge it to master branch.

Start-up project

# Create a new branch for development. The name of branch should be semantic, avoiding words like 'update' or 'tmp'. We suggest to use feature/xxx, if the modification is about to implement a new feature.
$ git checkout -b branch-name

# Initialization of the project and installation of dependencies.
$ npm run one-stop-setup

# Launching the official website in development mode.
$ npm run start:site

# Launch playground in development mode.
$ npm run star开发模式下启动playgroundt:playground

Test and Submit

# Run the test after you finish your modification. Add new test cases or change old ones if you feel necessary
$ npm test

# If your modification pass the tests, congradulations it's time to push your work back to us. Notice that the commit message should be wirtten in the following format.
$ git add . # git add -u to delete files
$ git commit -m "fix(role): role.use must xxx"
$ git push origin branch-name

Then you can create a Pull Request at AVA.

No one can guarantee how much will be remembered about certain PR after some time. To make sure we can easily recap what happened previously, please provide the following information in your PR.

1. Need: What function you want to achieve (Generally, please point out which issue is related).
2. Updating Reason: Different with issue. Briefly describe your reason and logic about why you need to make such modification.
3. Related Testing: Briefly describe what part of testing is relevant to your modification.
4. User Tips: Notice for g2 users. You can skip this part, if the PR is not about update in API or potential compatibility problem.

Style Guide

Eslint can help to identify styling issues that may exist in your code. Your code is required to pass the test from eslint. Run the test locally by $ npm run lint.

Commit Message Format

You are encouraged to use angular commit-message-format to write commit message. In this way, we could have a more trackable history and an automatically generated changelog.

<type>(<scope>): <subject>
<BLANK LINE>
<body>
<BLANK LINE>
<footer>

（1）type

Must be one of the following:

• chore: Changes to the build process or auxiliary tools and libraries such as documentation generation
• docs: Documentation-only changes
• feat: A new feature
• fix: A bug fix
• refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
• revert: Undo the changes made by a previously committed commit
• style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
• test: Adding missing tests

（2）scope

The scope of the modified file, i.e., the packages and modules involved. A single commit usually does not allow multiple packages to be involved, and the order in parentheses is based on the following array order. The specific scope is as follows:

• global: Changes to the root directory
• ava
• ava/advisor
• ava/ckb
• ava/data
• ava/insight
• ava/ntv
• ava-react
• ava-react/ntv
• ava-react/insight-card

（3）subject

Use succinct words to describe what did you do in the commit change.

（4）body

Feel free to add more content in the body, if you think subject is not self-explanatory enough, such as what it is the purpose or reasons of you commit.

（5）footer

• If the commit is a Breaking Change, please note it clearly in this part.
• related issues, like Closes #1, Closes #2, #3

e.g.

fix($compile): [BREAKING_CHANGE] couple of unit tests for IE9

Older IEs serialize html uppercased, but IE9 does not...
Would be better to expect case insensitive, unfortunately jasmine does
not allow to user regexps for throw expectations.

Document change on antvis/AVA#123

Closes #392

BREAKING CHANGE:

  Breaks foo.bar api, foo.baz should be used instead

Look at these files for more details.

Release

AVA uses semantic versioning in release process based on semver.

Branch Strategy

master branch is the latest stable version.

• just checkout develop branch from master
• All new features will be added into master or next branch as well as all bug-fix except security issues. In such way, we can motivate developers to update to the latest stable version.

Release Strategy

In the release of every stable version, there will be a PM who has the following responsibilities in different stages of the release.

Preparation

• Set up milestone. Confirm that request is related to milestone.

Before Release

• Confirm that performance test is passed and all issues in current Milestone are either closed or can be delayed to later versions.
• Open a new Release Proposal MR, and write History as node CHANGELOG. Don't forget to correct content in documentation which is related to the releasing version. Commits can be generated automatically. $ npm run commits
• Nominate PM for next stable version.