There are different ways to make a contribution to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) while a few guidelines are necessary to keep the workflow and review process most efficient.
- You may help us by reporting bugs and feature requests via the issue tracker. See the help page on reporting bugs (environment, reproducing) as well as on identifying bugs (stack-trace) for information on how to do this best. Please remember to always provide information about your environment as well as a stack-trace.
- You may help us to do pre-release testing by joining the team of testers on GitHub.
- You may help us by providing software translations via translatewiki.net. See their progress-statistics to find out if there is still work to do for your language.
- You may help us by creating, updating or amending the documentation of the software on Semantic-MediaWiki.org.
You may help us by providing patches or additional features via a pull request but in order to swiftly co-ordinate your code contribution, the following should suffice:
- Please ensure that pull requests are based on the current master. See also the developer documentation overview for further information.
- Code should be easily readable (see NPath complexity,
if elsenesting etc.) and if necessary be put into separate components (or classes) - Newly added features should not alter existing tests but instead provide additional test coverage to verify the expected new behaviour. For a description on how to write and run PHPUnit test, please consult the manual.
Thank you for contributing to Semantic MediaWiki!