etesync-android/CONTRIBUTING.md

DAVdroid is free and open-source software, licensed under the GPLv3 License. If you like our project, please contribute to it.

How to contribute

Reporting issues

An issue might be a bug, an enhancement request or something in between. If you think you have found a bug or if you want to request some enhancement, please:

1. Read the Configuration and FAQ pages carefully. The most common issues/usage challenges are explained there.
2. Search the Web for the problem, maybe ask competent friends or in forums.
3. Browse through the open issues. You can also search the issues in the search field on top of the page. Please have a look into the closed issues, too, because many requests have already been handled (and can't/won't be fixed, for instance).
4. Fetch verbose logs and prepare them. Remove Authorization: Basic xxxxxx headers and other private data. Extracting the logs may be cumbersome work in the first time, but it's absolutely necessary in order to handle your issue.
5. Create a new issue, containing
   • a useful summary of the problem ("Crash when syncing contacts with large photos" instead of "CRASH PLEASE HELP"),
   • your DAVdroid version and source ("DAVdroid 0.5.10 from F-Droid"),
   • your Android version and device model ("Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 4.4.2 (CyanogenMod 11-20140504-SNAPSHOT-M6-i9100)"),
   • your CalDAV/CardDAV server software, version and hosting information ("OwnCloud 6, hosted on virtual server"),
   • a problem description, including instructions on how to reproduce the problem (we need to reproduce the problem before we can fix it!),
   • verbose logs including the network traffic (see step before). Enquote the logs with three backticks ``` before and after, or post them onto http://gist.github.com and provide a link.

Pull requests

We're very happy about pull requests for

• source code,
• documentation,
• translation (strings).

However, if you want to contribute source code, please talk with us in the corresponding issue before because will only merge pull requests that

• match our product goals,
• have the necessary code quality,
• don't interfere with other near-term future development.

However, feel free to fork the repository and do your changes anyway (that's why it's open-source). Just don't expect your strategic changes to be merged if there's no consensus in the issue before.

Donations

If you want to support this project, please also consider donating to DAVdroid or purchasing it in one of the commercial stores.