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# Contributing to Carbon
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## Issue Contributions
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Please report any security issue using [Tidelift security contact](https://tidelift.com/security).
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Tidelift will coordinate the fix and disclosure.
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Please don't disclose security bugs publicly until they have been handled by us.
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For any other bug or issue, please click this link and follow the template:
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[Create new issue](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/issues/new)
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You may think this template does not apply to your case but please think again. A long description will never be as
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clear as a code chunk with the output you expect from it (for either bug report or new features).
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## Code Contributions
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### Where to begin
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We use the label **good first issue** to tag issues that could be a good fit for new contributors, see if there are such issues now following this link:
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https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22
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Else, check the roadmap to see what we plan to do in next releases:
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https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/issues/1681
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### Develop locally, then submit changes
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Fork the [GitHub project](https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon) and download it locally:
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```shell
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git clone https://github.com/<username>/Carbon.git
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cd Carbon
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git remote add upstream https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon.git
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```
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Replace `<username>` with your GitHub username.
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Then, you can work on the master or create a specific branch for your development:
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```shell
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git checkout -b my-feature-branch -t origin/master
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```
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You can now edit the "Carbon" directory contents.
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Before committing, please set your name and your e-mail (use the same e-mail address as in your GitHub account):
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```shell
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git config --global user.name "Your Name"
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git config --global user.email "your.email.address@example.com"
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```
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The ```--global``` argument will apply this setting for all your git repositories, remove it to set only your Carbon
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fork with those settings.
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Now you can commit your modifications as you usually do with git:
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```shell
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git add --all
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git commit -m "The commit message log"
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```
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If your patch fixes an open issue, please insert ```#``` immediately followed by the issue number:
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```shell
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git commit -m "#21 Fix this or that"
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```
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Use git rebase (not git merge) to sync your work from time to time:
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```shell
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git fetch origin
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git rebase origin/master
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```
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Please add some tests for bug fixes and features (so it will ensure next developments will not break your code),
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then check all is right with phpunit:
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Install PHP if you haven't yet, then install composer:
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https://getcomposer.org/download/
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Update dependencies:
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```
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./composer.phar update
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```
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Or if you installed composer globally:
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```
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composer update
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```
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Then call phpunit:
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```
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./vendor/bin/phpunit
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```
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Make sure all tests succeed before submitting your pull-request, else we will not be able to merge it.
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Push your work on your remote GitHub fork with:
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```
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git push origin my-feature-branch
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```
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Go to https://github.com/yourusername/Carbon and select your feature branch. Click the 'Pull Request' button and fill
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out the form.
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We will review it within a few days. And we thank you in advance for your help.
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## Versioning
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### Note about Semantic Versioning and breaking changes
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As a developer, you must understand every change is a breaking change. What is a bug for someone
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is expected in someone else's workflow. The consequence of a change strongly depends on the usage.
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[Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/) relies to public API. In PHP, the public API of a class is its public
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methods. However, if you extend a class, you can access protected methods, then if you use reflexion, you can
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access private methods. So anything can become a public API if you force it to be. That doesn't mean we should handle
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any possible usage, else we would have to publish a major release for each change and it would no longer make sense.
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So before any complain about a breaking change, be warned, we do not guarantee a strict Semantic Versioning as you
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may expect, we're following a pragmatic interpretation of Semantic Versioning that allows the software to evolve in a
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reliable way with reasonable maintenance effort.
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Concretely, we consider a change as breaking if it makes fail one of our unit test. We will do our best to avoid
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incompatibilities with libraries that extends Carbon classes (such as Laravel that is continuously tested thanks to
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Travis CI, [see the compatibility matrix](https://github.com/kylekatarnls/carbon-laravel/tree/master#carbon-1-dev-version-1next)).
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If you're the owner of a library that strongly depends on Carbon, we recommend you to run unit tests daily requiring
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`"nesbot/carbon": "dev-master"` (for `^2`) or `"nesbot/carbon": "dev-version-1.next"` (for `^1`), this way you can
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detect incompatibilities earlier and report it to us before we tag a release. We'll pay attention and try to fix it to
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make update to next minor releases as soft as possible.
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We reserve the right to publish emergency patches within 24 hours after a release if a tag that does not respect
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this pattern would have been released despite our vigilance. In this very rare and particular case, we would mark the
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tag as broken on GitHub and backward compatibility would be based on previous stable tag.
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Last, you must understand that Carbon extends PHP natives classes, that means Carbon can be impacted by any change
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that occurs in the date/time API of PHP. We watch new PHP versions and handle those changes as quickly as possible
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when detected, but as PHP does not follow the semantic versioning pattern, it basically means any releases (including
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patches) can have unexpected consequences on Carbon methods results.
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### Long term support
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To benefit the better support, require Carbon using major version range (`^1` or `^2`). By requiring `1.26.*`,
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`~1.26.0` or limited range such as `>=1.20 <1.33`, you fall to low priority support (only security and critical issues
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will be fixed), our prior support goes to next minor releases of each major version. It applies to bug fixes and
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low-cost features. Other new features will only be added in the last stable release. At the opposite, we recommend you
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to restrain to a major number, as there is no compatibility guarantee from a major version to the next. It means
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requiring `>=2`, as it allows any newer version, will probably leads to errors on releasing our next major version.
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Open milestones can be patched if a minor bug is detected while if you're on a closed milestone, we'll more likely
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ask you to update first to an open one. See currently open milestones:
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https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon/milestones
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