👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍
The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to immudb. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.
Open Source projects are maintained and backed by a wonderful community of users and collaborators. We encourage you to actively participate in the development and future of immudb by contributing to the source code regularly, improving the documentation, reporting potential bugs, or testing new features.
There are many ways to take part in the immudb community.
- Github Repositories: Report bugs or create feature requests against the dedicated immudb repository.
- Discord: Join the Discord channel and chat with other developers in the immudb community.
- Twitter: Stay in touch with the progress we make and learn about the awesome things happening around immudb.
Contributions to this project must be accompanied by a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). You retain the copyright to your contribution; this simply gives us permission to use and redistribute your contributions as part of the project. Therefore, with every contribution to the code, you must sign-off the following DCO:
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or
b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or
c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it.
d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved.
You can sign-off that you adhere to these requirements by simply adding a signed-off-by line to your commit message, as specified in the pull request guidelines.
The issue tracker is the preferred channel for bug reports, feature requests, and pull requests, but please respect the following restrictions:
- Please do not use the issue tracker for personal support requests.
- Please do not get off track in issues. Keep the discussion on topic and respect the opinions of others.
- Please do not post comments consisting solely of "+1" or ":thumbsup:". Use [GitHub's "reactions" feature](https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues- and-comments) instead. We reserve the right to delete comments which violate this rule.
Our bug tracker utilizes several labels to help organize and identify issues. For a complete look at our labels, see the project labels page.
A bug is a demonstrable problem that is caused by the code in the repository. Good bug reports are extremely helpful, so thanks! Guidelines for bug reports:
- Provide a clear title and description of the issue.
- Share the version of immudb you are using.
- Add code examples to demonstrate the issue. You can also provide a complete repository to reproduce the issue quickly. A good bug report shouldn't leave others needing to chase you up for more information. Please try to be as detailed as possible in your report:
- What is your environment?
- What steps will reproduce the issue?
- What OS experiences the problem?
- What would you expect to be the outcome? All these details will help us fix any potential bugs. Remember, fixing bugs takes time. We're doing our best! Example:
Short and descriptive example bug report title
A summary of the issue and the OS environment in which it occurs. If suitable, include the steps required to reproduce the bug.
- This is the first step
- This is the second step
- Further steps, etc.
<url>
- a link to the reduced test caseAny other information you want to share that is relevant to the issue being reported. This might include the lines of code that you have identified as causing the bug, and potential solutions (and your opinions on their merits).
Feature requests are welcome! When opening a feature request, it's up to you to make a strong case to convince the project's developers of the merits of this feature. Please provide as much detail and context as possible. When adding a new feature to immudb, make sure you update the documentation as well.
Before providing a pull request, be sure to test the feature you are adding. We will only approve pull requests with at least 80% of code covered by unit tests.
Good pull requests—patches, improvements, new features are a fantastic help. They should remain focused in scope and avoid containing unrelated commits. Please ask first before starting on any significant pull request (e.g. implementing features, refactoring code, porting to a different language), otherwise you might spend a lot of time working on something that the project's developers might not want to merge into the project. Please adhere to the code guidelines used throughout the project (indentation, accurate comments, etc.) and any other requirements (such as test coverage). Adhering to the following process is the best way to get your work included in the project:
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Fork the project, clone your fork and configure the remotes:
# Clone your fork of the repo into the current directory git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/immudb.git
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Navigate to the newly cloned directory
cd immudb
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Assign the original repo to a remote called "upstream"
git remote add upstream https://github.com/codenotary/immudb.git
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Create a new topic branch (off the main project master branch) to contain your feature, change, or fix:
git checkout -b <topic-branch-name>
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Make sure your commits are logically structured. Please adhere to these git commit message guidelines. Use Git's interactive rebase feature to tidy up your commits before making them public. For immudb, we follow the conventional commits layout. This way commits are more meaningful and the autogenerated part of the readme is better structured.
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Sign-off that you adhere to the DCO by adding a signed-off-by line to your commit message, separated by a blank line from the body of the commit. This is my commit message
Signed-off-by: Your Name <your.email@example.org>
Git even has a -s or -s –amend (in case you already have a commit) command line option to append this automatically to your existing commit message:
$ git commit -s -m 'This is my commit message'
Signed-off-by: Your Name your.email@example.org to the last line of each Git commit message
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Locally rebase the upstream master branch into your topic branch:
git pull --rebase upstream master
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Push your topic branch up to your fork:
git push origin <topic-branch-name>
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Open a pull request with a clear title and description against the
master
branch.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of documents and articles talking about Go best practices and tips & tricks. We are continuously trying to improve our code, and taking inspiration from community works helps us grow.
- https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
- https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
- https://go-proverbs.github.io/
- https://the-zen-of-go.netlify.app/
- https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/qcon-china.html
- https://github.com/bahlo/go-styleguide
- https://github.com/Pungyeon/clean-go-article
- https://github.com/dgryski/go-perfbook
Please note again that code coverage should no less than 80% and that we encourage you to minimize the use of 3rd party libraries.
Adhere to the linting and concepts guidelines.
- Prefix immudb components with the
I
character - Provide multiple customization options
- Use mixins where applicable
Fork the repository and create a branch as specified in the pull request guidelines above.
By contributing your code, you agree to license your contribution under the Apache Version 2.0 License.