Contributing

Want to contribute to webcomponents.js? Great!

We are more than happy to accept external contributions to the project in the form of bug reports and pull requests.

Contributor License Agreement

Before we can accept patches, there's a quick web form you need to fill out.

• If you're contributing as an individual (e.g. you own the intellectual property), fill out this form.
• If you're contributing under a company, fill out this form instead.

This CLA asserts that contributions are owned by you and that we can license all work under our license.

Other projects require a similar agreement: jQuery, Firefox, Apache, Node, and many more.

More about CLAs

Initial setup

1. Setup Gulp: sudo npm install -g gulp

2. Fork the project on github and pull down your copy. Replace the {{ username }} with your username, and {{ repository }} with the repository name.

   git clone git@github.com:{{ username }}/{{ repository }}.git

3. Test your change results in a working build. In the repo you've made changes to, try generating a build:

   cd $REPO
       npm install
       gulp build
   

   The builds will be placed into the dist/ directory if all goes well.

4. Commit your code and make a pull request.

That's it for the one time setup. Now you're ready to make a change.

Submitting a pull request

We iterate fast! To avoid potential merge conflicts, it's a good idea to pull from the main project before making a change and submitting a pull request. The easiest way to do this is to set up a remote called upstream and do a pull before working on a change:

git remote add upstream git://github.com/polymer/webcomponentsjs.git

Then before making a change, do a pull from the upstream main branch:

git pull upstream main

To make life easier, add a "pull upstream" alias in your .gitconfig:

    [alias]
      pu = !"git fetch origin -v; git fetch upstream -v; git merge upstream/main"

That will pull in changes from your forked repo, the main (upstream) repo, and merge the two. Then it's just a matter of running git pu before a change and pushing to your repo:

    git checkout main
    git pu
    # make change
    git commit -a -m 'Awesome things.'
    git push

Lastly, don't forget to submit the pull request.