Sponsorship

Bacon is free for all uses.

If it helps your company make money, consider helping me find time to add features and to develop new free open-source software.

I’m also available for consulting or custom development. Head to https://dystroy.org for references.

Chat

The best place to chat about bacon, to talk about features or bugs, is the Miaou chat.

Bacon room on Miaou

Issues

We use GitHub’s issue manager.

Before posting a new issue, check your problem hasn’t already been raised and in case of doubt please come first discuss it on the chat.

If bacon didn’t understand correctly the output of a cargo tool, it may also be useful to have a look at the log (see below) and at the analysis export, which you normally find in a bacon-analysis.json file on hitting ctrl-e.

Log

When something looks like a bug, I need both to know the exact configuration (OS, terminal program, mainly) and to have the log.

The log can be obtained this way:

start bacon with BACON_LOG=debug bacon
do the action which seems not to properly work, and nothing else
quit bacon
go to the chat (or the GitHub issue if you already made one) and paste the content of the bacon.log file

Contribute

If you think you might help, as a tester or coder, you’re welcome, but please read Contributing to my FOSS projects before starting a PR.

Don’t open a PR without discussing the design before, either in the chat or in an issue, unless you’re just fixing a typo. Coding is the easy part. Determining the exact requirement and how we want it to be done is the hard part. This is especially important if you plan to add a dependency or to change the visible parts, eg the launch arguments.

This documentation…

… needs your help too.

Tell me what seems to be unclear or missing.

Or for simple corrections, head to the source