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Issues

How to Contribute in Issues

For any issue, there are fundamentally three ways an individual can contribute:

  1. By opening the issue for discussion: For instance, if you believe that you have uncovered a bug in DroneAid, creating a new issue in the Code-and-Response/DroneAid issue tracker is the way to report it.
  2. By helping to triage the issue: This can be done either by providing supporting details (a test case that demonstrates a bug), or providing suggestions on how to address the issue.
  3. By helping to resolve the issue: Typically this is done either in the form of demonstrating that the issue reported is not a problem after all, or more often, by opening a Pull Request that changes some bit of something in Code-and-Response/DroneAid in a concrete and reviewable manner.

Asking for General Help

The best place to ask for help is through the DroneAid Slack workspace. Open an issue to request an invitation.

Discussing non-technical topics

Discussion of non-technical topics are also best to discuss in the #general channel of the DroneAid Slack workspace.

Submitting a Bug Report

When opening a new issue in the Code-and-Response/DroneAid issue tracker, please provide as much detail about your environment as possible.

See How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example.

Triaging a Bug Report

Once an issue has been opened, it is not uncommon for there to be discussion around it. Some contributors may have differing opinions about the issue, including whether the behavior being seen is a bug or a feature. This discussion is part of the process and should be kept focused, helpful, and professional.

Short, clipped responses—that provide neither additional context nor supporting detail—are not helpful or professional. To many, such responses are simply annoying and unfriendly.

Contributors are encouraged to help one another make forward progress as much as possible, empowering one another to solve issues collaboratively. If you choose to comment on an issue that you feel either is not a problem that needs to be fixed, or if you encounter information in an issue that you feel is incorrect, explain why you feel that way with additional supporting context, and be willing to be convinced that you may be wrong. By doing so, we can often reach the correct outcome much faster.

Resolving a Bug Report

In the vast majority of cases, issues are resolved by opening a Pull Request. The process for opening and reviewing a Pull Request isa similar to that of opening and triaging issues, but carries with it a necessary review and approval workflow that ensures that the proposed changes meet the minimal quality and functional guidelines of the DroneAid project.