This article is not a detailed guide on how to create a pull request (PR). See here to learn more about how to work with pull requests on GitHub.
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the main checklists you must go through before a PR will be considered for inclusion in Farmer. If you are new to Farmer, F# or GitHub - don’t worry. The team will be happy to support you in getting your feature over the line.
These are the following checks we’ll normally put in place:
Except for small pull requests, create an issue to discuss the feature. The last thing we want is for someone to spend hours of their time on a feature only for someone else to have started work on something similar, or for the admins of the project to reject it for whatever reason e.g. does not fit with the project etc. Creating an issue does not take long and will help save time for everyone.
Every PR to Farmer must have some documentation with it. If you modify a resource and add a new keyword, it must be added to the appropriate docs page.
Every PR to Farmer should have at least one test associated with it. If no tests are added, you can expect at least a request for one or an explanation as to why one is not necessary.
Every PR to Farmer must include an entry to the RELEASE_NOTES.md file under the next release. Briefly explain the feature and ideally link to the PR number e.g.
Here are some (very basic!) standards for the project: