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Contributor Guide

First of all: every contribution is welcome! If you don't know how to make a change just ask!

That said we can separate the contributions in two:

This part is just like every other Perl module. In this case we're using Dist::Zilla to build the distribution package.

So a typical workflow will be fork and pull request based (for those not familiar you can check forking projects)

# Just in case Dist Zilla is not installed
$ cpanm Dist::Zilla
$ dzil authordeps | cpanm
# Make your changes
$ dzil test

If the last step suceed then you're ready to make a Pull Request!!

The parts related to components are mainly autogenerated using the Python packages so we'll need them. To set up the developement environment first you have to follow: Dash instructions for contributing

Once the Javascript and Python parts are working the script tool/build_dist.pl will execute the commands and will generate the files and assets needed to build the Perl package distribution.

After a succesful execution you can just start hacking!

Once the changes in components are done you'll have to pass all the tests so don't forget to run the full tests:

$ dzil test

Beware: some parts are still under development!