Contributing to Barman

Barman is an open-source project and we welcome contributions from the community.

Follow these guidelines when playing with Barman code and contributing patches to the project.

• Setting up a development installation
• Writing code
• Writing and running tests
• Writing and building documentation
  • Style guide
    • Tense and voice
    • Future and conditional tenses
    • Person
    • Line length
    • Sentence length
    • Contractions
    • Numbers
    • Dates
    • Capitalization
    • Punctuation
    • “This” without a noun
    • Directing users up and down through a topic
    • Bold (text)
    • Courier (AKA inline code or monospace text)
    • Code blocks
    • Italics (text)
    • Links
    • Admonitions (notes, warnings, hints, etc.)
    • Tables
    • Lists
    • Images
    • Cross-reference labels standard
      • Handling Included Files
      • Purpose of This Standard
  • Building the documentation
    • HTML documentation
    • PDF documentation
    • Linux man page
• Opening a PR