This is the official website of Programming club, UIET, Panjab University

1. First, fork this repository to your account.

2. Create a virtual environment on your machine.

   virtualenv env
   

   We recommend using python-virtualenv. Any other packages would do fine though.

3. Activate the newly created virtual env:

   cd env
   source bin/activate
   

4. Clone this repository (this would make rebasing easier).

   git clone https://github.com/pclubuiet/website.git
   

5. Install the dependencies for the project.

   cd website
   pip3 install -r requirements.txt
   

6. Run the migrations and collect staticfiles

   python manage.py migrate
   python manage.py collectstatic
   

7. Run the live development server on your machine and test it.

   python manage.py runserver
   

   Once the server is started, open http://127.0.0.1:8000/home in a web browser. Everything went well if the webpage loads correctly and you don't see any errors.

8. Add a remote to your forked repository. This remote will be needed to push your changes to your repo.

   git remote add myfork https://github.com/<username>/website.git
   

9. Find an issue in this repository that you would like to and can fix. After you have found an issue, ping a maintainer on that issue to assigned it to you.

   Once the issue is assigned to you, you can start working on it. Step 10 and beyond will guide you through this part of contribution.

   Only Pull Request from the assignee would be considered. This is to save yours and ours time and energy. No two contributors shall be working on the same issue.

10. Create a new branch and switch to it. (make sure you are on master before doing this).

    git branch mybranch
    git checkout mybranch
    

    'mybranch' can be replaced by your preferred name for the branch. The above to commands are equivalent to the following

    git checkout -b mybranch
    

11. Make your changes. Then stage them and commit them. Check out Chris Beams's guide to writing good commit messages here.

    A small description of your changes is must in the commit messages.

12. After you are done making changes, push the branch to your fork.

    git push -u myfork mybranch
    

    The -u option is required only the first time you push the branch. In case you have made multiple commits, you need to squash them into a single commit before pushing.

13. Then create a Pull Request from that branch using GitHub.

What after you have submitted a Pull Request?

Well, you could wait for it to be reviewed by someone or you could attempt to fix another issue.

OR

You could help us in an even better way!

If you have the time and the knowledge then you must review others' Pull Requests. This would stop Pull Requests from stacking up and will definitely mean your Pull Request would be reviewed faster.

Things to keep in mind while reviewing a Pull Request

If any of the following questions has a yes for an answer then the request shall not be approved.

• Will the referenced issue not be fixed with the Pull Request?
• Are there unnecessary changes?
• Is the commit message not good?
• Is a rebase required?
• Is the fix dirty (hacky)?