= Contributions

Contributions are very welcome - code, docs, whatever they might be! If this is
your first contribution to an Open Source project or you're a core maintainer
of multiple projects, your time and interest in contributing is most welcome.

If you're not sure where to get started, raise an issue in the project.

Ideas may be discussed, purely on their merits and issues. Our Code of Conduct
(CoC) is straightforward - it's important that contributors feel comfortable in 
discussion throughout the whole process. This project respects the 
link:https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/code-of-conduct.html[Linux Kernel code of conduct]. 

== If you're not sure, ask!

Don't be afraid to ask for advice before working on a
contribution. If you're thinking about a bigger change, especially that might
affect the core working or architecture, it's almost essential to talk and ask
about what you're planning might affect things. Some of the larger future plans may not be
documented well so it's difficult to understand how your change might affect
the general direction and roadmap of this project without asking. 

The preferred way to communicate is probably via GitHub issues for now. 

=== Getting started to contribute;

The project layout is reasonably straightforward; 

* See the `Makefile` for common targets. This project was originally created on top of Fedora, but it should be usable on Debian/your faveourite distro with minor changes (if any).
* The API is defined in protobuf+grpc - you will need to `make grpc`. 
* The Go daemon is built from the `cmd` and `internal` directories mostly.
* The webui is just a single page application with a bit of Javascript in the `webui` directory. This can happily be hosted on another webserver.

== Mechanics of submitting a change

* Please fork, feature-branch, and PR. 
* In your PR, please provide a brief, but meaningful description that describes why you think
  this contribution is useful, and what it changes.

Thanks so much for your time! :-) 

=== Checklist - testing your changes

Before you PR, please run these checks locally;

* `make daemon-compile`, `make daemon-codestyle` and `make daemon-unittests` should run cleanly. 
* `make webui-codestyle` should run cleanly.