Contributing

You are welcome contribute to App Manager! This doesn't mean that you need coding skills. You can contribute to App Manager by creating helpful issues, attending discussions, improving documentations and translations, making icon for icon packs, adding unrecognised libraries or ad/tracking signatures, reviewing the source code, as well as reporting security vulnerabilities.

Rules

• If you are going to implement or work on any specific feature, please inform us before doing so. Due to the complex nature of the project, integrating a new feature could be challenging.

• Your contributions are licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later by default. Please see related Linux documentations to see how to add license headers to a file, and remember the following:

  • If the files your are contributing to do not have GPL-3.0-or-later, add it to the existing SPDX-License-Identifier using AND, e.g.

    SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 AND GPL-3.0-or-later
    

  • If the entire file or Java class is copied from another person or project, you have to add a copyright statement adding the person who wrote it first like this:

    // Copyright 2004 Linus Torvalds
    

    You can also add other contributors but they are not mandatory. You do not need to include your name because it can already be available via the version control system.

  • Do not add the @author tag as it is considered a bad practice.

• You have to sign-off your work. You can do that using the --signoff argument. If you are not using command line or a software that does not support it, you can add the following line at the end of your commit message:

  Signed-off-by: My Name <[email protected]>
  

  We also support most of the commit message conventions from Linux.

  App Manager is a legal software and its contributions are protected by copyright laws. Consider using real credentials i.e. real name and email as we may be required to delete your valuable contributions in the event of introducing new license or adding exceptions to the existing license.

Note: Repositories located in sites other than GitHub are currently considered mirrors and any pull or merge requests submitted there will not be accepted. Instead, you can submit patches (as .patch files) via email attachment. My email address is muntashirakon [at] riseup [dot] net. Beware that such emails may be publicly accessible in future. GitHub pull requests will be merged manually using the corresponding patches. As a result, GitHub may falsely mark them closed instead of merged.

Warning. Every commit made by other users are thoroughly examined with the exception of commits made through Weblate. So, if it is found that you are abusing the Weblate platform, you will be blocked on Weblate without a warning, and ALL your contributions to this project shall be removed. This is a hobby project, and like any hobby, I want to make things neat and clean. Existing contributors are also encouraged to report any abuse. Your identity shall be kept secret.