<p>There are a variety of ways to contribute to the development of Semantic. We are a very new project and are looking for an enthusiastic and like-minded group of core contributors. We use the lovely free project management software <a href="https://trello.com/jack148/recommend">Trello</a> for keeping track of project issues and updates.</p>
<p>Some Trello boards are open publicly, others are limited to contributors. Anyone can share ideas for the direction of the project using our public boards.</p>
<p>If you are looking to be added to contributor board on Semantic and are active in development, please reach out to me by e-mail <a href="mailto:jack@myfav.es">jack@myfav.es</a></p>
<p>There are a variety of ways to contribute to the development of Semantic. We are a very new project and are looking for an enthusiastic and like-minded group of core contributors.
<p>We are looking for a few good coders to help us push out important new features for a release version of Semantic. Here's an overview of current features in development</p>
<p>Please submit any bugs you encounter when using the library to our <a href="https://github.com/jlukic/Semantic-UI/issues?state=open">Github Issues Tracker</a>.</p>
<h3 class="ui header">CSS Variables</h3>
<p>When submiting a bug report, please include a set of steps to reproduce the issue and any related information, browser, OS etc. If we can't see the issue then it will make solving things much more difficult.</p>
<p>We are working on porting Semantic to using CSS variables to allow for easier theming. We are currently planning on using a CSS Pre-processor to move useful values over to variables. The current plan is to <b>not use mix-ins or pre-processor specific code</b> besides variables, and to add vendor prefixing using Grunt.</p>
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<p>Contributors should read over the coding guidelines for the project. Most importantly, the guide for language, as it is one of the most important parts about Semantic UI.</p>
<p>We are looking to create example layouts with Semantic to help people make sites quicker, and to learn the intracicies of using Semantic UI. The plan is to eventually create a sister site <b>learnsemantic.com</b> which will contain useful features for learning to use Semantic.</p>
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<p>We need to create a customizer for Semantic so user's can choose which components they would like to include and create custom zips with their minified concatenated code.</p>
<p>Most likely this means creating a standalone server that can take API requests for custom builds of semantic and return zip with minified and uncompressed source, or with a little ingenuity in-page javascript which uses JSZIP to do the same</p>
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<p>Semantic uses <a href="">Jasmine</a> with <a href="http://karma-runner.github.io/0.10/index.html" target="_blank">Karma Test Runner</a> and <a href="https://travis-ci.org/jlukic/Semantic-UI" target="_blank">Travis CI</a> to write unit tests for our UI modules.</p>
<h3 class="ui dividing header">Pull Requests</h3>
<p>We need help to increase our code coverage by writing Jasmine tests for <a href="/module.html">modules</a> and to write feature specs which can be used to write tests.</p>
<p>Anyone can jump on the issues board and grab off bugs to fix. This is probably the best way to become a contributor to Semantic. Be sure to adhere to the style guides when submitting code.</p>
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<p>Please submit any bugs you encounter when using the library to our <a href="https://github.com/jlukic/Semantic-UI/issues?state=open">Github Issues Tracker</a>.</p>
<p>Be sure to include a set of steps to reproduce the issue and any related information, browser, OS etc. If we can't see the issue then it will make solving things much more difficult.</p>
<div class="ui warning message">When submiting a bug report, please <a href="http://jsfiddle.net/jlukic/Vbr9d/1/">Fork this JSFiddle</a> to create a test-case. It will have Semantic and normalize.css included for you automatically.</div>
<h3 class="ui header">Expanding UI</h3>
<p>Semantic is looking for people to help contribute new core UI components, and suggest extensions for the library.</p>
<p>If you have suggestions for components missing from Semantic which you'd like to see in future versions please add them to our public UI Component board. The current list of upcoming components, and their current development status can be seen on the contributor UI board.</p>
<h4 class="ui header">Visit UI Development Boards</h4>
<div class="ui message">Please mark any UI ideas submitted with the label <span class="ui black label">UI Suggestion</span class="ui black label"></div>
<a class="ui button" href="https://github.com/jlukic/Semantic-UI/issues/new"><i class="lightbulb icon"></i> Add an idea</a>
<p>We're looking currently for ideas on the best way to expand Semantic to include both core library and third party components. This requires creating a component specification which can be used by anyone to create ui components, and a package management system (website or command line) for authors to distribute them.</p>
<h3 class="ui header">Style Guide</h3>
<p>Contributors may find it useful to read over the coding guidelines for the project. Most importantly, the guide for language, as it is one of the most important parts about Semantic UI.</p>
<p>We are working to create development kits for writing and distributing third party UI definitions. These, are planned to land after our 1.0 release and allow other developers to contribute ui components or reskins of existing components.</p>
<p>For more information on the development of the UI specification for third party components, please visit our community discussion boards on Trello</p>
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