Contributions are always very welcome. Even if you have never contributed to an open-source project before - please do not hesitate to offer help. Fixes for typos in the documentation, extra unit tests, etc... are welcome. And look in the issues list for anything tagged “easy_win”.
Photologue includes an example project to get you quickly ready for contributing to the project - do not hesitate to use it!
Photologue is hosted on Github, so if you have not already done so, read the excellent Github help pages. We try to keep the workflow as simple as possible; most pull requests are merged straight into the master branch.
Features that will take a while to develop might warrant a separate branch in the project; at present only the ImageKit integration project is run on a separate branch.
No surprises here - just try to follow the conventions used by Django itself.
Including unit tests with your contributions will earn you bonus points, maybe even a beer. So write plenty of tests.
Keeping the documentation up-to-date is very important - so if your code changes how Photologue works, or adds a new feature, please check that the documentation is still accurate, and update it if required.
We use Sphinx to prepare the documentation; please refer to the excellent docs on that site for help.
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The CHANGELOG is part of the documentation, so if your patch needs the end user to do something - e.g. run a South migration - don’t forget to update it!
Photologue manages string translations with Transifex. Contributions are very welcome, either by editing the translations directly on the Transifex site, or by submitting pull requests with updated .po files.
In the wiki there is a wishlist of new features already planned for Photologue - you are welcome to suggest other useful improvements.
If you’re interested in developing a new feature, it is recommended that you first discuss it on the mailing list or open a new ticket in Github, in order to avoid working on a feature that will not get accepted as it is judged to not fit in with the goals of Photologue.
Photologue was started by Justin Driscoll in 2007. He quickly built it into a powerful photo gallery and image processing application, and it became successful.
Justin then moved onto other projects, and no longer had the time required to maintain Photologue - there was only one commit between August 2009 and August 2012, and approximately 70 open tickets on the Google Code project page.
At this point Richard Barran took over as maintainer of the project. First priority was to improve the infrastructure of the project: moving to Github, adding South, Sphinx for documentation, Transifex for translations, Travis for continuous integration, zest.releaser.
The codebase has not changed much so far - and it needs quite a bit of TLC (Tender Loving Care), and new features are waiting to be added. This is where you step in...
Please remember that the maintainer looks after Photologue in his spare time - so it might be a few weeks before your pull request gets looked at... and the pull requests that are nicely formatted, with code, tests and docs included, will always get reviewed first ;-)