CONTRIBUTING

# Contributing Guidelines

Pull requests from everyone are welcome

Procedure for contributing:

- Select SD.Next `dev` branch:  
  <https://github.com/vladmandic/sdnext/tree/dev>  
- Create a fork of the repository on github  
  In a top right corner of a GitHub, select "Fork"  
  Its recommended to fork latest version from main branch to avoid any possible conflicting code updates  
- Clone your forked repository to your local system  
  `git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/<your-fork>`  
- Make your changes  
- Test your changes  
- Lint your changes against code guidelines  
  - `ruff check`  
  - `pylint <folder>/<filename>.py`  
- Push changes to your fork  
- Submit a PR (pull request)  
  - Make sure that PR is against `dev` branch  
  - Update your fork before createing PR so that it is based on latest code  
  - Make sure that PR does NOT include any unrelated edits  
  - Make sure that PR does not include changes to submodules  

Your pull request will be reviewed and pending review results, merged into `dev` branch  
Dev merges to main are performed regularly and any PRs that are merged to `dev` will be included in the next main release