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How to Contribute

While we are working on NZBGet project all the time, we still would really like and need help on many areas:

  • Major - code contributions on features and bugs
  • Improvements in tests
  • Improvements on documentation

We entice our users to participate in the project, please don't hesitate to get involved - create a new issue or pull request - that would also greatly help if you'll share your usage experience.

Documentation

Main documentation is available on the NZBGet.com website - https://nzbget.com/documentation/

Development

NZBGet natively supports for multiple platforms and build options, so each platform has their own development documenation, including:

Branches naming policy

  • main is a protected branch that contains only release code
  • develop is a protected branch for development
  • new branches should follow the following convention:
    • hotfix/brief-description for any small hotfixes
    • feature/brief-description for any new developments
    • bugfix/brief-description for bugs

Pull requests flow for develop and main branches

  1. For PRs targeting develop branch Squash and merge mode must be used.
  2. After merging branch to develop, branch must be deleted.
  3. For release PR (develop -> main) Create a merge commit mode must be used.
  4. After merging develop -> main, must be back merge main -> develop before any changes in develop branch.

This flow results to the fact that in the PR to master branch we see only the squashed commits that correspond to the PRs in the develop branch in current release cycle.

Version changes in release cycle

After the release has been published (from the main branch), the minor version in the develop branch should be increased so that subsequent test builds are a higher version than the release.

List of files to change version:

  1. configure.ac - "AC_INIT" macro
  2. CMakeLists.txt - "project" block
  3. nzbget.vcxproj - "PreprocessorDefinitions" blocks - 4 matches
  4. windows/nzbget-setup.nsi - WriteRegStr - "DisplayVersion"