So you want to contribute to Colobot: Gold Edition? That's awesome! Before you start, read this page, it contains a lot of useful information on how to do so.
Before you start, read more about technical details of the project. They can be found in our Game Design Document (live editor).
You may also find some useful information on the our (outdated) dev wiki.
- If you want to fix a bug, please first check the related issue on GitHub's bug tracker. If there isn't one, make it.
- If you want to add a new feature or make any change to gameplay, please first discuss it either on the forums or in the related issue on GitHub. When your issue gets accepted label, that means that your suggestion got accepted and is waiting for somebody to work on it. Always wait for your suggestion to be accepted before you start writing any code.
- Before you start, check "Assignee" field in the issue and read the comments to see if nobody else is working on the same issue. If somebody is assigned to it, but there was no activity for a long time, you can take it over. Also, please post a comment on the issue that you want to help us, so other people don't waste time working at that issue in the same time.
See the related page on dev wiki for general guidelines, or this file for detailed description.
See colobot-lint repository for automated tool that checks the coding style.
If your pull request breaks the coding style, you will have to fix it before it gets merged.
After you finish working on your issue and want your code to be merged into the main repository, you should submit a pull request. Go to this page and select "New pull request". All pull request should ALWAYS be submitted to the dev branch. After your PR gets reviewed by our development team, it will be merged to dev branch, and on the next release - to the master branch.
If you need more help, see GitHub's help page on Pull Requests.
Ask on our official Freenode channel (#colobot @ irc.freenode.net) or on our forums. We're here to help :)