How To Contribute ?

You can easily contribute to the Propel project since all projects are hosted by GitHub. You just have to fork the Propel project on the PropelORM organization and to provide Pull Requests or to submit issues. Note, we are using Git as main Source Code Management.

The Propel organization maintains four projects:

• Propel : the main project.
• PropelBundle : a bundle to integrate Propel with Symfony2.
• sfPropelORMPlugin : a plugin to integrate Propel with symfony 1.x;
• propelorm.github.com : the Propel documentation (aka this website).

Submit an issue

The ticketing system is also hosted on GitHub:

• Propel: https://github.com/propelorm/Propel/issues
• PropelBundle: https://github.com/propelorm/PropelBundle/issues
• sfPropelORMPlugin: https://github.com/propelorm/sfPropelORMPlugin/issues

Make a Pull Request

The best way to submit a patch is to make a Pull Request on GitHub. First, you should create a new branch from the master. Assuming you are in your local Propel project:

$ git checkout -b fix-my-patch master

Now you can write your patch in this branch. Don't forget to provide unit tests with your fix to prove both the bug and the patch. It will ease the process to accept or refuse a Pull Request.

When you're done, you have to rebase your branch to provide a clean and safe Pull Request.

$ git checkout master
$ git pull --ff-only upstream master
$ git checkout fix-my-patch
$ git rebase master

In this example, the upstream remote is the PropelORM organization repository.

Once done, you can submit the Pull Request by pushing your branch to your fork:

$ git push origin fix-my-patch

Go to your fork on Github, switch to your patch's branch (in the above example, it's fix-my-patch) and click on the "Compare and pull request" button. Add a short description to this Pull Request and submit it!

Running Unit Tests

See Working with unit tests How to setup propel's required environment and use PHPUnit.

Improve the documentation

The Propel documentation is written in Markdown syntax and runs through GitHub Pages. Everybody can contribute to the documentation by forking the propelorm.github.com project and to submit Pull Requests.