Shopware is available under dual license (AGPL v3 and proprietary license). If you want to contribute code (features or bugfixes), you have to create a pull request and include valid license information. You can either contribute your code under New BSD or MIT license.
If you want to contribute to the backend part of Shopware, and your changes affect or are based on ExtJS code, they must be licensed under GPL V3, as per license requirements from Sencha Inc.
If you are not sure which license to use, or want more details about available licensing or the contribution agreements we offer, you can contact us at [email protected].
When creating a pull requests you should mention:
- Why you are changing it
- What you are changing
- If this will break something
Pull request should be English (title, description and code comments, if applicable).
When coding and committing, please:
- Write your commit messages in English
- Have them short and descriptive
- Don't fix things which are related to other issues / pull requests
- Mention your changes in the UPGRADE.md
- Provide a test
- Follow the coding standards
All contributions should follow the PSR-1 and PSR-2 coding standards.
To start contributing, just fork the repository and clone your fork to your local machine:
git clone [email protected]:[YOUR USERNAME]/shopware.git
After having done this, configure the upstream remote:
cd shopware
git remote add upstream git://github.com/shopware/shopware.git
git config branch.master.remote upstream
To keep your master up to date:
git checkout master
git pull --rebase
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install
php bin/console sw:migrations:migrate
php bin/console sw:snippets:to:db
Checkout a new topic-branch and you're ready to start hacking and contributing to Shopware:
git checkout -b feature/your-cool-feature
If you're done hacking, filling bugs or building fancy new features, push your changes to your forked repo:
git push origin feature/your-cool-feature
... and send us a pull request with your changes. We'll verify the pull request and merge it with the main branch.
For most tests a configured database connection is required.
The tests are located in the tests/ directory
You can run the entire test suite with the following command:
vendor/bin/phpunit -c tests
If you want to test a single component, add its path after the phpunit command, e.g.:
vendor/bin/phpunit -c tests tests/Functional/Components/Api/
Developer documentation for Shopware is available here. You can also contribute to the documentation project by submitting your pull requests to our Devdocs Github project
Shopware translations are done by the community and can be installed from the plugin store. If you wish to improve Shopware's translations, you can do so in our Crowdin project page.