oh great! As far as the ‘central decider’ mostly that’s any of people who are blessed to review pull-requests (which currently is just me and @Professr). We are friendly and happy to help you come up to speed in the ways of github. Here’s some initial comments:
- A good summary on how to send in your first “pull request”: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-make-your-first-pull-request-on-github-3/
- For obvious bugs with simple fixes, you can just send in a pull request. For new features or anything kinda complex probably best to first make an issue so other folks can give feedback on your approach/idea (before you bother coding it) - but that’s optional.
- When changing source files, try to only change the lines that you need (i.e. don’t do a big reformatting of the file - because then it makes it hard/impossible to review the pull request). We recommend using the Visual Studio Code editor with the platformio plugin (see the platformio site for a download link). That editor will auto format lines matching our convention.
- If you have other questions either post here or if you want more of a live chat (when others happen to be online - mostly the weekends) our devchat slack is here: https://app.slack.com/client/T0178GSES9E/C0163V5NC79