Pull Request Review Checklist

This checklist is for Brackets Committers to assist in reviewing pull requests to ensure that they are ready to merge. It has some elements in common with the Pull Request Checklist because committers have a chance to double check work before it goes in.

How to use the checklist:

• The purpose of the checklist is to make sure that we don't forget anything important
• Consider each item in the list, but only act on the items that you think are relevant to the change you're looking at

Proposed Pull Request Review checklist

Ensuring the change is ready to go in

• Has the user signed the CLA?
• Was there new third-party code? If so, what's the license? (ideally MIT or BSD)
• Does this change belong in core? Some features would be better as an extension - could it be done as an extension by separating out a more limited set of core changes (e.g. more generic APIs)?
• Any major architectural or UI changes have been discussed in the forum?
• All new APIs are documented in the [Release Notes] (https://github.com/brackets-cont/brackets/wiki/Release-Notes)?

Testing the change

• Download the code
  • git checkout -b (username)/(branchname) (create a new branch to hold the changes)
  • git pull (URL of contributor's git repo) (branchname) (download their changes)
• Build on Travis-CI passes (you'll see the results in the pull request on GitHub)
  • This ensures that code passes JSHint
• Look for JSLint errors
  • New or obsolete globals, for example
• Check copyright date on file
• Code is syntactically valid (Brackets launches & no exceptions in the console)
• All unit, integration and extension tests pass
• Smoke tests and server smoke tests have been run (nontrivial changes specifically)
• Try out edge cases for the change
  • Clearly depends on what the change is
  • Look for problems at beginnings/ends of files, top/bottom of the editor window
  • Make sure inline editors work well, too
• UI is reasonably polished ?

Other things to look for when reviewing the code

• Code follows our JS coding style guidelines (we probably need to clean those up)
• Edge cases not covered by the code
• Code has unit tests
• All UI strings externalized (we should have a how-to page for this).
• If there are string changes, it can't land at the very end of the sprint
• Native: should compile
• Native: Mac AND Win implementations

At the end

• GitHub's merge button is the easiest way to merge the changes in
• Do a manual merge if you make any minor tweaks to the pull request
• git branch -D (username)/(branchname) to remove the test branch

Avoid Common pitfalls

(make sure these have been thought about):

• Asynchronicity: look for possible race conditions and assumptions about the order of operations that might be invalid
• Text manipulation commands: should consider what happens when in an inline editor at boundaries
• Inline editors: does this collide with any other providers?
• Code hinting: does this collide with any other providers?