flipperzero-firmware/wiki/Contributing.md

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Getting Started

If you are just beginning in Flipper, Read the wiki. It describes general things like contribution, building and testing, and tell about main features. Flipper consists of two main parts:

• Core: OS, HAL, FS, bootloader, FURI
• Applications: features like RFID or Tamagotchi, and also background tasks like button debouncing and control the backlight.

General Tips and principles

• Ask around for help! If you have any questions, feel free to create an need help issue, send an email to devel@flipperdevices.com or use our Discord server (read more about discord). The earlier you check your feature design with other people, the less likely it is that it is denied during the review process.
• Verify your concept early! If you work on your own until the code looks good enough to show publicly, you might miss some design flaws others might have spotted earlier.
• Keep it simple! Try to use what is already there and don't change existing APIs if not absolutely necessary.
• State your intentions Create issue before you start your work. It will prevent a very frustrating situation where several people are doing the same job the same time.
• Make tests (incomplete)
• Make docs you can do very cool things but other people cannot use if it is not described in the documentation
• We are open to changes. You can suggest changes to any part of the code, wiki, guidelines, workflow, automation, etc. by creating issue or PR if you understand how it can be done better.

Welcome message

Good point to add something about yourself. Create welcome issue, tell community about yourself, what tasks you can take and what help do you need. You can find another users messages by message tag.

Status of wiki sections

• Some sections mark as incomplete. This means that there is not even a description of how the feature can be implemented. You can start discussion thread or directly begin to write wiki page (see Contributing).
• Some sections mark as not implemented. It have description but there is nothing that would make this description into reality.
• Some sections mark as not documented. There is some implementation and you can add some documentation here.
• If section of wiki has no mark, this is actual documentation for part of Flipper.

How to edit Wiki

⚠️ Do not edit Wiki direcrly in web-interface. Your changes will be lost after automatic rebuild

1. Edit files in wiki and wiki_static files in your branch
2. Create PR with documentation label
3. Wait for automatic rebuild after merged in master branch

The Wiki connected to this repostiry is automatically generated from .md files located in repository via Github Actions.

Folder structure:

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├── wiki           # Actual wiki pages in markdown format
├── wiki_static    # Static files for wiki: images, pdf, samples

Backlog

Some tasks were postponed, you can find it by tag backlog, maybe you are ready to implement something of it.

Maintainers

Every section/page of wiki and related part of code has its own maintainers. Maintainers list and related code folders is placed at the bottom of page or section.

To become a maintainer of some section/page, create issue or write to devel@flipperdevices.com.

If contributors cannot reach consensus during a discussion or code review, you can add a needs moderating label. Maintainers has the final say in the discussion.

If maintainers cannot reach consensus, Flipper devices CTO (@glitchcore) has the final say in the discussion.

Issues

Please notice that we use a bunch of tags to label the issues.

All issues are, if possible, tied to sections in the wiki with Area:<wiki page name> labels.

Full list of labels you can find at labels list page.

Contributing

If you want to add some features or suggest some changes, do following steps:

1. Choose section which you want to improve
2. Check existing issues and PR by Area tag. Maybe somebody create discussion about your improvement or already doing some work.
3. Choose your way:
   • If you have some idea about new feature, you can create feature request
   • If you find some bug, you can create bug report
   • You can ask for help if you are not sure how to implement your idea or discuss implementation details by creating discuss issue.
4. Otherwise, make you improvement:
   • Clone actual repository.
   • Create a branch
   • Make commits
   • Push your branch and create a pull request
   • Wait for maintainers feedback.
   • Your code is merged in master branch
5. If you can do only part of work, create PR with WIP label. Describe what you have already done and what remains to be done and other people can help you.

Coding Style

Flipper Zero source code is formatted using clang-format for C code and rustfmt for rust. We use the Kernel Code Style with minor changes, you can see the rules in .clang-format file. The Github CI tests will automatically check the code format and fail if the format is incorrect.

Also, you can check and fix format with syntax_check.sh script.

Pull requests

1. Don't forget reference issues or other PR
2. Add Area: label to PR
3. Remember that smaller PRs tend to be merged faster, so keep your changes as concise as possible. They should be confined to a single explainable change, and be runnable on their own. So don't hesitate to split your PRs into smaller ones when possible.
4. If you only create description at wiki but no implementation existing, don't forget to add not implemented mark.
5. We strongly recommend documenting your code and creating wiki descriptions at the same time as improvement the code. If you have no energy left for documentation, at least mark the appropriate section of the wiki as not documented, or you can create WIP PR and wait for help.

Large and static files storage (incomplete)

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