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Matysh ae10b2861b chore: drop Project v2 from the process, the docs and the release script
The owner stopped using GitHub Projects. Most of this is wording, but one part
was not: release-prerelease.mjs talked to the Project in code. finishIssues
looked up the project id, listed its items and its Status=Done option, and threw
when an issue was missing from the board — so the first release that closed an
issue would have died on a step with nothing to do with publishing. Found by
reading rather than by releasing, which was luck.

Closing issues stays, and now strips the status label first. That order is not
cosmetic: the invariant that a closed issue carries no status label has broken
twice already, both times because a manual step did it the other way round. The
close-merged job already does it in this order.

The documents now say labels and only labels. The explicit "no longer used"
lines are kept on purpose, in PROCESS.md and next to the code that used to sync:
a decision that vanishes quietly gets reintroduced a month later by someone who
never knew it was made.

Issue: #139
User-Visible: no
2026-08-14 10:50:56 +03:00

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Contributing to House Plan

Thanks for your interest! The project is one HACS package: a storage integration (custom_components/houseplan/, Python) and a Lovelace card (src/, TypeScript + Lit).

Changelog

User-visible changes go into both changelogs in the same commit: docs/CHANGELOG.md (English) and docs/CHANGELOG.ru.md (Russian). Entries older than v1.42.0 exist only in the English file — no need to backfill them.

Where to ask

Not sure whether something is a bug, or just want to discuss an idea before writing code? The Telegram chat @ha_houseplan is the quickest route to the author and other users. Bugs and concrete feature requests still belong in issues.

Backlog and work status

GitHub Issues are the only active backlog. An issue owns scope and acceptance criteria; its labels own priority and workflow status — PROCESS.md §9 holds the vocabulary. Before starting planned work, link it to an existing issue or create one, and keep it current until the verified result is closed. Design specs and ADRs may support an issue, but they do not replace it or maintain a separate checklist.

Five-minute setup

git clone https://github.com/Matysh/houseplan-card && cd houseplan-card
npm ci                    # frontend toolchain
npm run typecheck         # tsc --noEmit (strict)
npm test                  # node:test — pure logic, i18n parity, tap-action security
npm run build             # tsc + rollup → dist/houseplan-card.js
pip install pytest voluptuous && python -m pytest tests_backend -q   # pure backend tests
npm install                # also installs .githooks through the prepare script

The HA-harness backend tests (tests_backend/test_ha_*.py) need Python ≥3.13 and pytest-homeassistant-custom-component home-assistant-frontend; CI runs them on every push — locally they are skipped when homeassistant is not importable.

Ground rules

  • Docs in the same commit: CHANGELOG entry for user-visible changes; docs/STATUS.md for state changes; docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for new gotchas.
  • Every UI string goes through src/i18n/<lang>.json (tests enforce en/ru key parity). Adding a language = adding one JSON file + registering it in src/i18n.ts.
  • The built card must be committed in sync: cp dist/houseplan-card.js custom_components/houseplan/frontend/ (CI compares them byte-for-byte).
  • Tap actions have a security model (locks/alarms never toggle from the plan) — see resolveToggleIntent in src/device-toggle.ts; don't weaken it.
  • Every commit follows the issue and trailer contract in PROCESS.md.
  • Follow the Integration Quality Scale where applicable — custom_components/houseplan/quality_scale.yaml tracks the self-assessment.

Architecture

Start with docs/ARCHITECTURE.md (data model, WS API, coordinate system) and docs/STATUS.md (current state). Release: bump the version in package.json, manifest.json, const.py, CARD_VERSION, tag vX.Y.Z, publish a GitHub release — the workflow attaches the card bundle.