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Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019FXfh48mASRsE1WEhy9jcM
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# Contributing to Kareer
## Build
Kareer is a KDE/Kirigami application (C++20 + QML) built with CMake and
Extra CMake Modules. See the README for the full list of system packages
to install, then:
```sh
cmake -B build -G Ninja
cmake --build build
./build/bin/kareer
```
Every GUI action is also available from the `kareer` CLI
(`add|list|show|update|stage|delete|stats|stages`) — run `./build/bin/kareer
--help` to see the subcommands.
## Test
```sh
ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure
```
Tests live in `autotests/` and link the core logic directly out of `src/`
(see `autotests/CMakeLists.txt`). CI runs the same suite on every pull
request via `.github/workflows/test.yml`, using `flatpak-builder`'s
`run-tests` option so the run happens inside the same KDE SDK sandbox as
release builds.
## Conventions
<!-- REUSE-IgnoreStart -->
- Every source file starts with `SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later`
(in whatever comment syntax fits the file type). Files that can't carry
an inline header — `.desktop`, `keys/*.asc` — are covered instead by
`REUSE.toml`.
<!-- REUSE-IgnoreEnd -->
- `src/` is intentionally flat: one class per concern, no `models/`,
`controllers/`, or `viewmodels/` subfolders.
- C++ backend classes are exposed to QML via `QML_ELEMENT`; QML views are
meant to stay thin renderers over that state, not hold logic themselves.
- `JobsDatabase` is the only class that touches the SQLite database
directly — route all persistence changes through it.
## Releasing
`.github/workflows/build.yml` builds, signs, and publishes a Flatpak
bundle whenever a `v*` tag is pushed. To cut a release: bump
`project(... VERSION ...)` in `CMakeLists.txt`, add a matching `<release>`
entry to the metainfo file, update the manifest's pinned `tag:`, then tag
and push.