Contributor Guide

Help & Bug Reporting

This project is composed of many sub-projects, and it can be hard to know the appropriate place to file issues. For that reason we prefer that non-developers report issues on the Juno discussion forum under the "issue" category or or at the Juno.jl Github repository. If you know which package the issue is appropriate in, then please open an issue there. Bug reports can be some of the most helpful contributions!

Contributing to the Packages

If you have feature ideas you'd like to implement, or bugs you'd like to fix, feel free to open a discussion under the "dev" category – we're always happy to help people flesh out their ideas or get unstuck on problems. Another good place to discuss with developers is in the Juno Gitter. Come by and we can chat about your ideas.

If you look over the GitHub issues for the various packages, you may notice some labelled up for grabs. These are features or bugs for which the implementation or fix is reasonably straightforward – they might take a few hours of effort or more, but they won't involve enormous expert-level challenges. As above, feel free to open up a discussion on these and we'll help you get going.

For extra general resources, consider the following:

• Julia Documentation – for learning about the Julia language.

• MDN – by far the best reference on the JavaScript language and browser window APIs.

• CoffeeScript – Atom and its packages use this to make working with JS a little more convenient.

• The Atom Docs – the Atom Flight Manual is a very readable introduction to Atom's internals, and the API docs are a useful reference.

• julia-client developer docs – These docs go into more detail about the internals of this project and the development workflow.

Most open source projects, including ours, use git to help work together. There are plenty of git tutorials around, and the various GUI clients (e.g. GitHub for Windows/Mac, SourceTree) are very helpful for learning the ropes.

Contributing to the Documentation

The documentation is provided by the JunoLab/JunoDocs.jl repository. It's built using Documenter.jl. To modify the documentation, simply modify the Markdown files in the docs/src folder. For more information on using Documenter.jl, please see the Documenter.jl Documentation.