Developing

Once you verified everything's working properly by running the tests, you're ready to go!

Taking a look at the issue queue

While the coding is done on github, the issue queue is still taken care of on drupal.org: you can take a look at the open issues, pick one you like and assign it to you.

Coding and Pull Request-ing

Remember to create a branch before start developing! It's name should contain the issue id and a slug to tell what the thing you're working on is about, for example: 2276369-readme.

Once you're done with the development, push your commits and create a Pull Request on github.

After your code has been reviewed, you might be asked to perform some changes and then have them reviewed again. After a number of iterations, you should get your code merged into the main repository. Hurray!

Keeping your fork up to date

After some time your forked repository and the original one(called upstream) will eventually get out of sync leaving you with an old, unsupported version. In order to keep that up to date, you'll need to fetch (i.e: downloading without touching the code on your computer) the latest commits and then merge them in the branch you need, which most likely will be 8.x-3.x. So enter your Rules module's directory and type:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/fago/rules.git

This command will add the original Rules' repository reference to your local repository(you don't have to repeat it all the time, just the first one will do). Then you can proceed with the download and merge on the wanted branch:

git fetch upstream
git checkout 8.x-3.x
git merge upstream/8.x-3.x

And that's it! Your repository is up to date again so that you can start developing a new feature right away! Please check Github's guide on how to sync a fork for more information

Keep the conventions in mind

• Always create an issue in the drupal.org Rules issue queue for every pull request you are working on.
• Always cross-reference the Issue in the Pull Request and the Pull Request in the Issue.
• Always create a new branch for every pull request: its name should contain a brief summary of the ticket and its issue id, e.g 2276369-readme.
• Try to keep the history of your pull request as clean as possible by squashing your commits: you can look at the Symfony documentation or at the Git book for more information on how to do that.

Taking over a stalled pull request

Sometimes a pull request gets stalled, and you want to move the issue forward. In order to get the code from that pull request in a branch of your fork, follow the steps for Checking out pull requests locally.

Then you can submit a new pull request with your additional changes that supersedes the existing one. Make sure to leave a comment at the old pull request that you are picking up the work.