# Publishing Contracts
This is a quick overview of how to publish contracts in this repo, or any other
repo.
## Preparation
Ensure the `Cargo.toml` file in the repo is properly configured. In particular, you want to
choose a name starting with `cw-`, which will help a lot finding cosmwasm contracts when
searching on crates.io. For the first publication, you will probably want version `0.1.0`.
If you have tested this on a public net already and/or had an audit on the code,
you can start with `1.0.0`, but that should imply some level of stability and confidence.
You will want entries like the following in `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
name = "cw-escrow"
version = "0.1.0"
description = "Simple CosmWasm contract for an escrow with arbiter and timeout"
repository = "https://github.com/confio/cosmwasm-examples"
```
You will also want to add a valid [SPDX license statement](https://spdx.org/licenses/),
so others know the rules for using this crate. You can use any license you wish,
even a commercial license, but we recommend choosing one of the following, unless you have a
personal opinion.
* Permissive: [`Apache-2.0`](https://spdx.org/licenses/Apache-2.0.html#licenseText) or [`MIT`](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html#licenseText)
* Free Software: [`GPL-3.0-or-later`](https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-3.0-or-later.html#licenseText) or [`AGPL-3.0-or-later`](https://spdx.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0-or-later.html#licenseText)
* Commercial license: `Commercial` (not sure if this works, I cannot find examples)
It is also helpful to download the LICENSE text (linked to above) and store this
in a LICENSE file in your repo. Now, you have properly configured your crate for use
in a larger ecosystem.
### Artifacts
To allow easy use of the contract, we can publish the schema, optimized wasm code,
as well as the expected hash. You should never take this as definitive proof
without checking it first, but the validity of these generated files will be part
of any review. This provides a canonical place to store them, so that reviews can be
published against a claim. You will want the following files:
* `schema/*.json`
* `contract.wasm`
* `hash.txt`
### Generate Artifacts
The following commands should allow you to generate the artifacts:
`schema/*.json`:
```shell script
rm -rf schema
cargo schema
# or cargo run --example schema
```
`contract.wasm`:
```shell script
docker run --rm -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/code confio/cosmwasm-opt:0.4.1
```
`hash.txt`:
```shell script
sha256sum contract.wasm > hash.txt
```
Ensure you check in all the artifacts, and make a git commit with the final state.
This commit will be published and should be tagged. Generally, you will want to
tag with the version (eg. `v0.1.0`), but in the `cosmwasm-examples` repo, we have
multiple contracts and label it like `escrow-0.1.0`. Don't forget a
`git push && git push --tags`
## Publishing
Now that your package is properly configured and all artifacts are committed, it
is time to share it with the world.
### Registry
You will need an account on [crates.io](https://crates.io) to publish a rust crate.
If you don't have one already, just click on "Log in with GitHub" in the top-right
to quickly set up a free account. Once inside, click on your username (top-right),
then "Account Settings". On the bottom, there is a section called "API Access".
If you don't have this set up already, create a new token and use `cargo login`
to set it up. This will now authenticate you with the `cargo` cli tool and allow
you to publish.
### Uploading
Once this is set up, make sure you commit the current state you want to publish.
Then try `cargo publish --dry-run`. If that works well, review the files that
will be published via `cargo package --list`. If you are satisfied, you can now
officially publish it via `cargo publish`.
Congratulations, your package is public to the world.
### Sharing
Once you have published your package, people can now find it by
[searching for "cw-" on crates.io](https://crates.io/search?q=cw).
But that isn't exactly the simplest way. To make things easier and help
keep the ecosystem together, we suggest making a PR to add your package
to the [`cawesome-wasm`](https://github.com/cosmwasm/cawesome-wasm) list.