matterbridge/vendor/github.com/bwmarrin/discordgo/CONTRIBUTING.md

Getting started

To start off you can check out existing Pull Requests and Issues to get a gasp of what problems we’re currently solving and what features you can implement.

Issues

Our issues are mostly used for bugs, however we welcome refactoring and conceptual issues.

Any other conversation would belong and would be moved into “Discussions”.

Discussions

We use discussions for ideas, polls, announcements and help questions.

Don’t hesitate to ask, we always would try to help.

Pull Requests

If you want to help us by improving existing or adding new features, you create what’s called a Pull Request (aka PR). It allows us to review your code, suggest changes and merge it.

Here are some tips on how to make a good first PR:

• When creating a PR, please consider a distinctive name and description for it, so the maintainers can understand what your PR changes / adds / removes.
• It’s always a good idea to link documentation when implementing a new feature / endpoint
• If you’re resolving an issue, don’t forget to link it in the description.
• Enable the checkbox to allow maintainers to edit your PR and make commits in the PR branch when necessary.
• We may ask for changes, usually through suggestions or pull request comments. You can apply suggestions right in the UI. Any other change needs to be done manually.
• Don’t forget to mark PR comments resolved when you’re done applying the changes.
• Be patient and don’t close and reopen your PR when no one responds, sometimes it might be held for a while. There might be a lot of reasons: release preparation, the feature is not significant, maintainers are busy, etc.

When your changes are still incomplete (i.e. in Work In Progress state), you can still create a PR, but consider making it a draft. To make a draft PR, you can change the type of PR by clicking to a triangle next to the “Create Pull Request” button.

Once you’re done, you can mark it as “Ready for review”, and we’ll get right on it.

Code style

To standardize and make things less messy we have a certain code style, that is persistent throughout the codebase.

Naming

REST methods

When naming a REST method, while it might seem counterintuitive, we specify the entity before the action verb (for GET endpoints we don’t specify one however). Here’s an example:

Endpoint name: Get Channel Message

Method name: ChannelMessage

Endpoint name: Edit Channel Message

Method name: ChannelMessageEdit

Parameter structures

When making a complex REST endpoint, sometimes you might need to implement a Param structure. This structure contains parameters for certain endpoint/set of endpoints.

• If an endpoint/set of endpoints have mostly same parameters, it’s a good idea to use a single Param structure for them. Here’s an example:

  Endpoint: GuildMemberEdit

  Param structure: GuildMemberParams

• If an endpoint/set of endpoints have differentiating parameters, Param structure can be named after the endpoint’s verb. Here’s an example:

  Endpoint: ChannelMessageSendComplex

  Param structure: MessageSend

  Endpoint: ChannelMessageEditComplex

  Param structure: MessageEdit

Events

When naming an event, we follow gateway’s internal naming (which often matches with the official event name in the docs). Here’s an example:

Event name: Interaction Create (INTERACTION_CREATE)

Structure name: InteractionCreate

Returns

In our REST functions we usually favor named returns instead of regular anonymous returns. This helps readability.

Additionally we try to avoid naked return statements for functions with a long body. Since it’s easier to loose track of the return result.