Serde welcomes contribution from everyone in the form of suggestions, bug reports, pull requests, and feedback. This document gives some guidance if you are thinking of helping us.
Please reach out here in a GitHub issue or in the #serde IRC channel on irc.mozilla.org if we can do anything to help you contribute.
Serde development is spread across lots of repositories. In general, prefer to open issues against the main serde-rs/serde repository unless the topic is clearly specific to JSON.
When reporting a bug or asking for help, please include enough details so that the people helping you can reproduce the behavior you are seeing. For some tips on how to approach this, read about how to produce a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example.
When making a feature request, please make it clear what problem you intend to solve with the feature, any ideas for how Serde could support solving that problem, any possible alternatives, and any disadvantages.
We encourage you to check that the test suite passes locally before submitting a pull request with your changes. If anything does not pass, typically it will be easier to iterate and fix it locally than waiting for the CI servers to run tests for you.
The test suite requires a nightly compiler.
tests/deps directory# This is a prerequisite for running the full test suite cargo clean && cargo update && cargo build
# Run the full test suite, including doc test and compile-tests cargo test
In all Serde-related forums, we follow the Rust Code of Conduct. For escalation or moderation issues please contact Erick (erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com) instead of the Rust moderation team.