feedBack/CONTRIBUTING.md
Bret Mogilefsky af2949677a
rename: slopsmith → feedBack, byron → got-feedBack (#537)
* Update GitHub repo references from feedback* to feedBack*

* rename: slopsmith -> feedBack, byron -> got-feedBack

Renames across the entire codebase:
- slopsmith/Slopsmith/SLOPSMITH/SlopSmith -> feedBack/FeedBack/FEEDBACK/FeedBack
- byron/Byron/Byrongamatos -> got-feedBack/got-feedBack/got-feedBack
- /home/byron/ -> /opt/got-feedBack/
- byron@ougsoft.com -> hi@got-feedBack.org
- github.com/byrongamatos/ -> github.com/got-feedback/
- com.byron. -> com.got-feedback.
- SLOPSMITH_ env vars -> FEEDBACK_ with backward-compat fallback
- Protocol/storage strings migrated with read-old/write-new pattern
- window.slopsmith JS API -> window.feedBack (canonical) + backward-compat alias

Refs: #rename-slopsmith

* rename: complete regen against current main + fix backward-compat alias

Regenerated the slopsmith->feedBack / byron->got-feedBack rename on top of
current main (3 commits had landed since the branch: #572/#554/#574),
resolving the four content conflicts in favour of main's newer content
(autoplay/auto-exit, accuracy-badge, Virtuoso re-home, feedpak badge).

Completion fixes on top of the mechanical rename:
- Re-apply rename to post-branch content the original rename never saw:
  window.slopsmith(.Tour) consumers in lessons.js / notifications.js /
  onboarding-tour.js, and the matching JS + python tests (autoplay_exit,
  progression_*, test_feedpak_extension FEEDBACK_* env vars). The test env
  vars now match server.py (which reads FEEDBACK_SYNC_STARTUP /
  FEEDBACK_SKIP_STARTUP_TASKS), so the sync-startup test exercises the real
  path again.
- Restore the window.slopsmith backward-compat alias dropped during conflict
  resolution, and move the bus aliases to AFTER the _feedBackExisting merge
  block so they reference the fully-assembled object (also fixes the
  loop_api.test.js API-surface regex, which the original PR latently broke).
- Drop the stray empty data/web_library.db (runtime DB lives in CONFIG_DIR)
  and gitignore it.
- Fix stale tone-source test: feed[dB]ack -> fee[dB]ack to match shipped
  source labels.

Verified locally (org CI billing-blocked): JS 819/819 pass; pytest 1669
passed / 1683 collected with 0 import errors; zero residual slopsmith/byron
except the two intentional window.slopsmith aliases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* rename: implement advertised backward-compat + prune dead community plugins

Address gaps where PR #537's "Backward compatibility" section was advertised
but not implemented, and clean up the community plugin list.

Env vars (FEEDBACK_* canonical, legacy SLOPSMITH_* honoured):
- New lib/env_compat.py (getenv_compat / env_flag_compat) + tests. server.py
  (_env_flag + all FEEDBACK_* reads), diagnostics_hardware, gp2midi and
  tailwind_rebuild now resolve the legacy alias, so existing SLOPSMITH_UI /
  SLOPSMITH_PLUGINS_DIR / etc. deployments keep working.
- Fix the rename collapsing plugins/__init__.py and minigames/routes.py from
  `FEEDBACK_PLUGINS_DIR or SLOPSMITH_PLUGINS_DIR` into a redundant
  `FEEDBACK_ or FEEDBACK_` (the fallback was silently lost).

Storage (app.js update-channel):
- Read feedBack-update-channel, fall back to legacy slopsmith-update-channel,
  and clear the legacy key on write — so a user's update-channel preference
  survives the rename instead of resetting to "stable".

Community plugin list (README): the rename rewrote third-party repo URLs we
don't own. Probed every one; their owners never renamed, so:
- Restore the 13 live community plugins to their real slopsmith-* names.
- Prune 6 that are 404 to the public (topkoa splitscreen/stems, OmikronApex
  tuner, Jafz2001 nam-rig-builder, DeathlySin song-preview, Erikcb91 shuffle).
- Fix a pre-existing Guitar Theory clone-command typo (nam-tone -> guitar-theory).

Verified: env_compat 7/7, JS 819/819, pytest 1690 collected / 0 import errors,
rename-sensitive + startup suites green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: byrongamatos <xasiklas@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-23 11:03:01 +02:00

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Contributing to FeedBack

Thanks for wanting to contribute! This document covers the legal and workflow expectations for code, plugins, and documentation contributions.

License

FeedBack is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only. Contributions you submit (PRs, patches, documentation, plugin entries in the curated list) are licensed inbound under the same terms — inbound = outbound. By opening a pull request, you agree that your contribution may be distributed under AGPL-3.0-only as part of FeedBack.

Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

We use the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) to track contribution provenance. Every commit must be signed off:

git commit -s -m "your commit message"

This appends a line to your commit message like:

Signed-off-by: Jane Developer <jane@example.com>

The sign-off certifies that you wrote the code (or have the right to submit it) and that you're contributing it under AGPL-3.0-only as the LICENSE file describes. The full text of the certification is at developercertificate.org.

If you forget to sign off, amend the most recent commit with git commit --amend -s (or rebase + sign off older commits) and force-push to your PR branch.

Plugin licensing

Plugins live in their own repositories and are loaded at runtime — see the Plugin System section in CLAUDE.md for the technical contract, and Plugin Best Practices for the conventions every plugin should follow (v2/v3 player chrome, the visualization contracts, and the performance rules — no per-frame DOM queries or broad document.body MutationObservers — that keep the 60 fps highway smooth). Plugins are not subject to AGPL by being loaded into FeedBack (the loader runs them as separate Python modules / browser scripts), but for the curated plugin list to accept your plugin we ask that it be released under an AGPL-3.0-compatible license:

  • AGPL-3.0-only or AGPL-3.0-or-later
  • GPL-3.0-only or GPL-3.0-or-later
  • LGPL-3.0-only or LGPL-3.0-or-later
  • MIT
  • BSD-2-Clause or BSD-3-Clause
  • Apache-2.0
  • ISC
  • Unlicense / CC0-1.0 / 0BSD

Plugins under GPL-2.0-only, LGPL-2.1-only, CDDL, EPL, or proprietary terms will not be added to the curated list. You're still free to publish and self-distribute them — FeedBack will load any plugin a user installs locally — but they won't be promoted from the main project.

Workflow

Standard PR workflow described in CLAUDE.md → Git Workflow:

  • Never push directly to main.
  • Create a feature branch on your fork.
  • Open a PR against got-feedback/feedBack:main.
  • Keep commits scoped and well-described; short imperative subject + Signed-off-by trailer.

Questions

Open an issue or start a Discussion if you're unsure whether a contribution fits — much better to ask early than to find out after the work is done.