Internal contribution guide

General rules

Here are a couple of points to remember when starting development in Membrane:

When moving a task from "Backlog" to "To do" replace any notes with issue in proper repo and assign yourself.
Create a branch with a meaningful name
You can open a draft PR right away.
Remember to link the issue to the PR (either by adding Closes # and PR number or using the UI)
Try to avoid making huge PRs - if the feature you're working on is big, create draft PR with a list of steps and ask for review as early as possible. You can smaller PRs from sub-task branches and use the main as master for this feature
When finished assign a reviewer. Ask during stand-up meeting who can do the review. You need at least one approval from one of the core team members and passing CI tests to merge new features.
Always remove your branch after merging the PR. It should happen automatically. If not, enable that in settings (or ask someone with permissions to do this)

Each new plugin should have its own repo and hex package
The plugin should contain one or more elements related to the same format/protocol (e.g. H264 plugin may contain decoder, encoder and parser)
One plugin should only depend on at most one native library, so if you need separate libraries for decoder and encoder each should be a separate plugin
When starting development you should create new repo based on https://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_template_plugin, enable CI and create branch (often called develop) and follow the usual steps.