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# Contribution Guidelines
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## Table of Contents
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- [Contribution Guidelines](#contribution-guidelines)
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- [Introduction](#introduction)
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- [Bug reports](#bug-reports)
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- [Discuss your design](#discuss-your-design)
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- [Testing redux](#testing-redux)
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- [Vendoring](#vendoring)
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- [Translation](#translation)
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- [Code review](#code-review)
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- [Styleguide](#styleguide)
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- [Sign your work](#sign-your-work)
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- [Release Cycle](#release-cycle)
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- [Maintainers](#maintainers)
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- [Owners](#owners)
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- [Versions](#versions)
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- [Copyright](#copyright)
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## Introduction
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This document explains how to contribute changes to the Gitea project.
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It assumes you have followed the
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[installation instructions](https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/).
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Sensitive security-related issues should be reported to
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[security@gitea.io](mailto:security@gitea.io).
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For configuring IDE or code editor to develop Gitea see [IDE and code editor configuration](contrib/ide/)
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## Bug reports
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Please search the issues on the issue tracker with a variety of keywords
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to ensure your bug is not already reported.
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If unique, [open an issue](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/new)
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and answer the questions so we can understand and reproduce the
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problematic behavior.
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To show us that the issue you are having is in Gitea itself, please
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write clear, concise instructions so we can reproduce the behavior—
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even if it seems obvious. The more detailed and specific you are,
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the faster we can fix the issue. Check out [How to Report Bugs
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Effectively](http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html).
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Please be kind, remember that Gitea comes at no cost to you, and you're
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getting free help.
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## Discuss your design
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The project welcomes submissions. If you want to change or add something,
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please let everyone know what you're working on—[file an issue](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/new)!
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Significant changes must go through the [change proposal process](https://github.com/go-gitea/proposals)
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before they can be accepted.
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This process gives everyone a chance to validate the design, helps
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prevent duplication of effort, and ensures that the idea fits inside
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the goals for the project and tools. It also checks that the design is
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sound before code is written; the code review tool is not the place for
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high-level discussions.
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## Testing redux
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Before sending code out for review, run all the tests for the
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whole tree to make sure the changes don't break other usage
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and keep the compatibility on upgrade. To make sure you are
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running the test suite exactly like we do, you should install
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the CLI for [Drone CI](https://github.com/drone/drone), as
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we are using the server for continous testing, following [these
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instructions](http://readme.drone.io/usage/getting-started-cli). After that,
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you can simply call `drone exec` within your working directory and it will try
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to run the test suite locally.
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## Vendoring
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We keep a cached copy of dependencies within the `vendor/` directory,
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managing updates via [govendor](http://github.com/kardianos/govendor).
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Pull requests should only include `vendor/` updates if they are part of
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the same change, be it a bugfix or a feature addition.
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The `vendor/` update needs to be justified as part of the PR description,
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and must be verified by the reviewers and/or merger to always reference
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an existing upstream commit.
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## Translation
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We do all translation work inside [Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/gitea).
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The only translation that is maintained in this git repository is
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[`en_US.ini`](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/blob/master/options/locale/locale_en-US.ini)
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and is synced regularily to Crowdin. Once a translation has reached
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A SATISFACTORY PERCENTAGE it will be synced back into this repo and
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included in the next released version.
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## Building Gitea
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Generally, the go build tools are installed as-needed in the `Makefile`.
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An exception are the tools to build the CSS and images.
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- To build CSS: Install [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager)
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with `npm` and then run `npm install` and `make stylesheets`.
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- To build Images: ImageMagick, inkscape and zopflipng binaries must be
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available in your `PATH` to run `make generate-images`.
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## Code review
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Changes to Gitea must be reviewed before they are accepted—no matter who
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makes the change, even if they are an owner or a maintainer. We use GitHub's
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pull request workflow to do that. And, we also use [LGTM](http://lgtm.co)
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to ensure every PR is reviewed by at least 2 maintainers.
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Please try to make your pull request easy to review for us. And, please read
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the *[How to get faster PR reviews](https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/devel/faster_reviews.md)* guide;
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it has lots of useful tips for any project you may want to contribute.
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Some of the key points:
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* Make small pull requests. The smaller, the faster to review and the
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more likely it will be merged soon.
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* Don't make changes unrelated to your PR. Maybe there are typos on
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some comments, maybe refactoring would be welcome on a function... but
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if that is not related to your PR, please make *another* PR for that.
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* Split big pull requests into multiple small ones. An incremental change
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will be faster to review than a huge PR.
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## Styleguide
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For imports you should use the following format (_without_ the comments)
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```go
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import (
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// stdlib
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"encoding/json"
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"fmt"
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// local packages
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"code.gitea.io/gitea/models"
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"code.gitea.io/sdk/gitea"
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// external packages
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"github.com/foo/bar"
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"gopkg.io/baz.v1"
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)
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```
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## Sign-off your work
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The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the
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patch. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise
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have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are
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pretty simple: If you can certify [DCO](DCO), then you just add a line
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to every git commit message:
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```
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Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>
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```
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Please use your real name; we really dislike pseudonyms or anonymous
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contributions. We are in the open-source world without secrets. If you
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set your `user.name` and `user.email` git configs, you can sign-off your
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commit automatically with `git commit -s`.
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## Release Cycle
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We adopted a release schedule to streamline the process of working
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on, finishing, and issuing releases. The overall goal is to make a
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minor release every two months, which breaks down into one month of
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general development followed by one month of testing and polishing
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known as the release freeze. All the feature pull requests should be
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merged in the first month of one release period. And, during the frozen
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period, a corresponding release branch is open for fixes backported from
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master. Release candidates are made during this period for user testing to
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obtain a final version that is maintained in this branch. A release is
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maintained by issuing patch releases to only correct critical problems
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such as crashes or security issues.
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Major release cycles are bimonthly. They always begin on the 25th and end on
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the 24th (i.e., the 25th of December to February 24th).
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During a development cycle, we may also publish any necessary minor releases
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for the previous version. For example, if the latest, published release is
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v1.2, then minor changes for the previous release—e.g., v1.1.0 -> v1.1.1—are
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still possible.
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## Maintainers
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To make sure every PR is checked, we have [team
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maintainers](MAINTAINERS). Every PR **MUST** be reviewed by at least
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two maintainers (or owners) before it can get merged. A maintainer
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should be a contributor of Gitea (or Gogs) and contributed at least
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4 accepted PRs. A contributor should apply as a maintainer in the
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[Discord](https://discord.gg/NsatcWJ) #develop channel. The owners
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or the team maintainers may invite the contributor. A maintainer
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should spend some time on code reviews. If a maintainer has no
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time to do that, they should apply to leave the maintainers team
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and we will give them the honor of being a member of the [advisors
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team](https://github.com/orgs/go-gitea/teams/advisors). Of course, if
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an advisor has time to code review, we will gladly welcome them back
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to the maintainers team. If a maintainer is inactive for more than 3
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months and forgets to leave the maintainers team, the owners may move
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him or her from the maintainers team to the advisors team.
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## Owners
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Since Gitea is a pure community organization without any company support,
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to keep the development healthy we will elect three owners every year. All
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contributors may vote to elect up to three candidates, one of which will
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be the main owner, and the other two the assistant owners. When the new
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owners have been elected, the old owners will give up ownership to the
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newly elected owners. If an owner is unable to do so, the other owners
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will assist in ceding ownership to the newly elected owners.
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After the election, the new owners should proactively agree
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with our [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) requirements in the
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[Discord](https://discord.gg/NsatcWJ) #general channel. Below are the
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words to speak:
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```
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I'm honored to having been elected an owner of Gitea, I agree with
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[CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md). I will spend part of my time on Gitea
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and lead the development of Gitea.
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```
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To honor the past owners, here's the history of the owners and the time
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they served:
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* 2016-11-04 ~ 2017-12-31
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* [Lunny Xiao](https://github.com/lunny) <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
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* [Thomas Boerger](https://github.com/tboerger) <thomas@webhippie.de>
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* [Kim Carlbäcker](https://github.com/bkcsoft) <kim.carlbacker@gmail.com>
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## Versions
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Gitea has the `master` branch as a tip branch and has version branches
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such as `release/v0.9`. `release/v0.9` is a release branch and we will
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tag `v0.9.0` for binary download. If `v0.9.0` has bugs, we will accept
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pull requests on the `release/v0.9` branch and publish a `v0.9.1` tag,
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after bringing the bug fix also to the master branch.
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Since the `master` branch is a tip version, if you wish to use Gitea
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in production, please download the latest release tag version. All the
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branches will be protected via GitHub, all the PRs to every branch must
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be reviewed by two maintainers and must pass the automatic tests.
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## Copyright
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Code that you contribute should use the standard copyright header:
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// Copyright 2017 The Gitea Authors. All rights reserved.
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// Use of this source code is governed by a MIT-style
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// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
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```
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Files in the repository contain copyright from the year they are added
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to the year they are last changed. If the copyright author is changed,
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just paste the header below the old one.
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