Thank you for thinking of contributing! We very much welcome contributions from the community. To make the process easier and more valuable for everyone involved we have a few rules and guidelines to follow.
Anyone with a Github account is free to file issues on the project. However, if you want to contribute documentation or code then you will need to sign CeresDB's Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
Before you file an issue, please search existing issues in case the same or similar issues have already been filed. If you find an existing open ticket covering your issue then please avoid adding “👍” or “me too” comments; Github notifications can cause a lot of noise for the project maintainers who triage the back-log. However, if you have a new piece of information for an existing ticket and you think it may help the investigation or resolution, then please do add it as a comment! You can signal to the team that you‘re experiencing an existing issue with one of Github’s emoji reactions (these are a good way to add “weight” to an issue from a prioritisation perspective).
The New Issue page has templates for both bug reports and feature requests. Please fill one of them out! The issue templates provide details on what information we will find useful to help us fix an issue. In short though, the more information you can provide us about your environment and what behaviour you're seeing, the easier we can fix the issue. If you can push a PR with test cases that trigger a defect or bug, even better!
As well as bug reports we also welcome feature requests (there is a dedicated issue template for these). Typically, the maintainers will periodically review community feature requests and make decisions about if we want to add them. For features we don't plan to support we will close the feature request ticket (so, again, please check closed tickets for feature requests before submitting them).
Please see the Style Guide for more details.
To open a PR you will need to have a Github account. Fork the ceresmeta repo and work on a branch on your fork. When you have completed your changes, or you want some incremental feedback make a Pull Request to CeresDB here.
If you want to discuss some work in progress then please prefix [WIP] to the PR title.
For PRs that you consider ready for review, verify the following locally before you submit it:
There are some tips on verifying the above in the next section.
After submitting a PR, you should:
The rule for running test has been configured in the Makefile so just run:
make test
CI will check the code formatting and best practices by some specific linters.
And you can run the check locally by the command:
make check