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# Contributing to SDL
We appreciate your interest in contributing to SDL, this document will describe how to report bugs, contribute code or ideas or edit documentation.
**Table Of Contents**
- [Filing a GitHub issue](#filing-a-github-issue)
- [Reporting a bug](#reporting-a-bug)
- [Suggesting enhancements](#suggesting-enhancements)
- [Contributing code](#contributing-code)
- [Forking the project](#forking-the-project)
- [Following the style guide](#following-the-style-guide)
- [Running the tests](#running-the-tests)
- [Opening a pull request](#opening-a-pull-request)
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- [Continuous integration](#continuous-integration)
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- [Contributing to the documentation](#contributing-to-the-documentation)
- [Editing a function documentation](#editing-a-function-documentation)
- [Editing the wiki](#editing-the-wiki)
## Filing a GitHub issue
### Reporting a bug
If you think you have found a bug and would like to report it, here are the steps you should take:
- Before opening a new issue, ensure your bug has not already been reported on the [GitHub Issues page](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues).
- On the issue tracker, click on [New Issue](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/new).
- Include details about your environment, such as your Operating System and SDL version.
- If possible, provide a small example that reproduces your bug.
### Suggesting enhancements
If you want to suggest changes for the project, here are the steps you should take:
- Check if the suggestion has already been made on:
- the [issue tracker](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues);
- the [discourse forum](https://discourse.libsdl.org/);
- or if a [pull request](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pulls) already exists.
- On the issue tracker, click on [New Issue](https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/new).
- Describe what change you would like to happen.
## Contributing code
This section will cover how the process of forking the project, making a change and opening a pull request.
### Forking the project
The first step consists in making a fork of the project, this is only necessary for the first contribution.
Head over to https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL and click on the `Fork` button in the top right corner of your screen, you may leave the fields unchanged and click `Create Fork`.
You will be redirected to your fork of the repository, click the green `Code` button and copy the git clone link.
If you had already forked the repository, you may update it from the web page using the `Fetch upstream` button.
### Following the style guide
Code formatting is done using a custom `.clang-format` file, you can learn more about how to run it [here](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html).
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Some legacy code may not be formatted, so please avoid formatting the whole file at once and only format around your changes.
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For your commit message to be properly displayed on GitHub, it should contain:
- A short description of the commit of 50 characters or less on the first line.
- If necessary, add a blank line followed by a long description, each line should be 72 characters or less.
For example:
```
Fix crash in SDL_FooBar.
This addresses the issue #123456 by making sure Foo was successful
before calling Bar.
```
### Running the tests
Tests allow you to verify if your changes did not break any behaviour, here are the steps to follow:
- Before pushing, run the `testautomation` suite on your machine, there should be no more failing tests after your change than before.
- After pushing to your fork, Continuous Integration (GitHub Actions) will ensure compilation and tests still pass on other systems.
### Opening a pull request
- Head over to your fork's GitHub page.
- Click on the `Contribute` button and `Open Pull Request`.
- Fill out the pull request template.
- If any changes are requested, you can add new commits to your fork and they will be automatically added to the pull request.
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### Continuous integration
For each push and/or pull request, GitHub Actions will try to build SDL and the test suite on most supported platforms.
Its behaviour can be influenced slightly by including SDL-specific tags in your commit message:
- `[sdl-ci-filter GLOB]` limits the platforms for which to run ci.
- `[sdl-ci-artifacts]` forces SDL artifacts, which can then be downloaded from the summary page.
- `[sdl-ci-trackmem-symbol-names]` makes sure the final report generated by `--trackmem` contains symbol names.
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## Contributing to the documentation
### Editing a function documentation
The wiki documentation for API functions is synchronised from the headers' doxygen comments. As such, all modifications to syntax; function parameters; return value; version; related functions should be done in the header directly.
### Editing the wiki
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Other changes to the wiki should done directly from https://wiki.libsdl.org/ ... Just click the "edit" link at the bottom of any page!