Everyone is welcome to contribute to Dendrite! We aim to make it as easy as possible to get started.
Please ensure that you sign off your contributions! See Sign Off section below.
See INSTALL.md for instructions on setting up a running dev instance of dendrite, and CODE_STYLE.md for the code style guide.
We use gb for managing our dependencies, so gb build and gb test is how
to build dendrite and run the unit tests respectively. Be aware that a list of
all dendrite packages is the expected output for all tests succeeding with gb test. There are also scripts for linting
and doing a build/test/lint run.
If you're new then feel free to pick up an issue labelled good first issue. These should be well-contained, small pieces of work that can be picked up to help you get familiar with the code base.
Once you're comfortable with hacking on Dendrite there are issues lablled as help wanted, these are often slightly larger or more complicated pieces of work but are hopefully nonetheless fairly well-contained.
We ask people who are familiar with Dendrite to leave the good first issue issues so that there is always a way for new people to come and get involved.
Dependencies are located in vendor/src and are managed by gb. If you need
to make some changes in those directories, you first need to open a PR in the
dependency repository. Once your PR is merged, you need to run gb vendor update $repo_url (example: gb vendor update github.com/matrix-org/gomatrix)
in the dendrite repository to update the dependency.
You can then create a commit containing only the modified vendor files (along
with the vendor/manifest file), name it with the command you just ran (ie
gb vendor update github.com/matrix-org/gomatrix), and open a PR on Dendrite.
For questions related to developing on Dendrite we have a dedicated room on Matrix #dendrite-dev:matrix.org where we're happy to help.
For more general questions please use #dendrite:matrix.org.
We ask that everyone who contributes to the project signs off their contributions, in accordance with the DCO.