🚨 Contributing to Atom 🚨

Issues

Include screenshots and animated GIFs whenever possible, they are immensely helpful
Include the behavior you expected to happen and other places you've seen that behavior such as Emacs, vi, Xcode, etc.
Check the Console app for stack traces to include if reporting a crash
Check the Dev tools (alt-cmd-i) for errors and stack traces to include

Follow the JavaScript, CSS, and Objective-C styleguides
Include thoughtfully worded Jasmine specs
Style new elements in both the light and dark default themes when appropriate
New packages go in src/packages/
Add 3rd-party packages as a package.json dependency
Commit messages are in the present tense
Files end with a newline
Class variables and methods should be in the following order:
- Class variables (variables starting with a @)
- Class methods (methods starting with a @)
- Instance variables
- Instance methods