Developers

Welcome prospective developers! We're so glad you've interested in helping out.

Local Setup Instructions

Clone the repo
Setup your discord bot
Copy /blueprints/config into root
Populate /config/auth.json
Make sure you're in root and run the following:
1. Run npm install
2. Run npm start

Stories start as Discussions, where they are developed until they achieve Story Completion
Restricting creating Issues until Story Completion (aka Story Approval) is intended to allow developers to confidently asynchronously select work on any Issue knowing that
- The Issue is not a duplicate
- The Issue's requirements are defined enough to complete the Story
- The Issue is unlikely to be in conflict with other work
When a Discussion achieves Story Completion, it is promoted to an Issue and the corresponding Discussion is deleted
Issues may futher be grouped into Milestones, which represent the minimum Issues required to release the next version
Issues not grouped into a Milestone can be added to any Milestone upon completion
Each Issue should have its own Feature Branch
When work on an Issue is complete, a Pull Request is opened to the relevant release branch (main is live)
Pull Requests are to require log10(active developers) reviews
Feature Branches are to be deleted after their Pull Requests are merged or rejected

This project uses tabs for indentation to reduce file size and keypresses during code navigation
Bot feedback messages should be written in 3rd-person passive tense (to avoid unnecessary personification) and make requests in polite language
- Example: "Your bounty could not be posted. Please remove phrases disallowed by the server from the title and try again."

Please use camelCase unless one of the following exceptions apply:

Classes are in PascalCase
Interaction instances match their customIds
- Slash commands use kebab-case as part of Discord convention
- Context Menu commands use User-Facing Case
- Others are alllowercase