How to contribute

I'm really glad you're reading this, because we need volunteer developers to help this project come to fruition.

Submitting changes

Always write a clear log message for your commits. One-line messages are fine for small changes, but bigger changes should look like this:

$ git commit -m "A brief summary of the commit
> 
> A paragraph describing what changed and its impact."

Start reading our code and you'll get the hang of it. We optimize for readability:

We indent using two spaces (soft tabs)
We use HAML for all views
We avoid logic in views, putting HTML generators into helpers
We ALWAYS put spaces after list items and method parameters ([1, 2, 3], not [1,2,3]), around operators (x += 1, not x+=1), and around hash arrows.
This is open source software. Consider the people who will read your code, and make it look nice for them. It's sort of like driving a car: Perhaps you love doing donuts when you're alone, but with passengers the goal is to make the ride as smooth as possible.

Thanks, Jonsmith1982