Contributing

1. or greater installed
2. Git client installed
3. Github account

From your browser navigate to http://github.com/rook/rook and click the “Fork” button.

Clone Your Fork

Open a console window and do the following;

Add Upstream Remote

First you will need to add the upstream remote to your local git:

git remote add upstream https://github.com/rook/rook.git
# Verify the remote was added
git remote -v

Now you should have at least origin and upstream remotes. You can also add other remotes to collaborate with other contributors.

To add a feature or to make a bug fix, you will need to create a branch in your fork and then submit a pull request (PR) from the branch.

For new features of significant scope and complexity, a design document is recommended before work begins on the implementation. For smaller, straightforward features and bug fixes, there is no need for a design document. Authoring a design document for big features has many advantages:

• Helps flesh out the approach by forcing the author to think critically about the feature and can identify potential issues early on
• Gets agreement amongst the community before code is written that could be wasted effort in the wrong direction
• Serves as an artifact of the architecture that is easier to read for visitors to the project than just the code by itself

Note that writing code to prototype the feature while working on the design may be very useful to help flesh out the approach.

A design document should be written as a markdown file in the . You will see many examples of previous design documents in that folder. Submit a pull request for the design to be discussed and approved by the community before being merged into master, just like any other change to the repository.

Create a Branch

From a console, create a new branch based on your fork and start working on it:

# Ensure all your remotes are up to date with the latest
# Create a new branch that is based off upstream master.  Give it a simple, but descriptive name.
# Generally it will be two to three words separated by dashes and without numbers.
git checkout -b feature-name upstream/master

Now you are ready to make the changes and commit to your branch.

Updating Your Fork

During the development lifecycle, you will need to keep up-to-date with the latest upstream master. As others on the team push changes, you will need to rebase your commits on top of the latest. This avoids unnecessary merge commits and keeps the commit history clean.

Whenever you need to update your local repository, you never want to merge. You always will rebase. Otherwise you will end up with merge commits in the git history. If you have any modified files, you will first have to stash them (git stash save -u "<some description>").

Rebasing is a very powerful feature of Git. You need to understand how it works or else you will risk losing your work. Read about it in the Git documentation, it will be well worth it. In a nutshell, rebasing does the following:

• “Unwinds” your local commits. Your local commits are removed temporarily from the history.
• The latest changes from upstream are added to the history
• Your local commits are re-applied one by one
• If there are merge conflicts, you will be prompted to fix them before continuing. Read the output closely. It will tell you how to complete the rebase.
• When done rebasing, you will see all of your commits in the history.

Once you have implemented the feature or bug fix in your branch, you will open a PR to the upstream rook repo. Before opening the PR ensure you have added unit tests, are passing the integration tests, cleaned your commit history, and have rebased on the latest upstream.

In order to open a pull request (PR) it is required to be up to date with the latest changes upstream. If other commits are pushed upstream before your PR is merged, you will also need to rebase again before it will be merged.

All pull requests must pass the unit and integration tests before they can be merged. These tests automatically run as a part of the build process. The results of these tests along with code reviews and other criterias determine whether your request will be accepted into the rook/rook repo. It is prudent to run all tests locally on your development box prior to submitting a pull request to the repo.

Unit Tests

make test

Unit tests for individual packages can be run with the standard go test command. Before you open a PR, confirm that you have sufficient code coverage on the packages that you changed. View the coverage.html in a browser to inspect your new code.

go test -coverprofile=coverage.out
go tool cover -html=coverage.out -o coverage.html

Running the Integration Tests

For instructions on how to execute the end to end smoke test suite, follow the .

Commit History

To prepare your branch to open a PR, you will need to have the minimal number of logical commits so we can maintain a clean commit history. Most commonly a PR will include a single commit where all changes are squashed, although sometimes there will be multiple logical commits.

Once your commit history is clean, ensure you have based on the latest upstream before you open the PR.

Submitting

Go to the to open the PR. If you have pushed recently, you should see an obvious link to open the PR. If you have not pushed recently, go to the Pull Request tab and select your fork and branch for the PR.

After the PR is open, you can make changes simply by pushing new commits. Your PR will track the changes in your fork and update automatically.

The flow for getting a fix into a release branch is to first make the commit to master following the process outlined above. After the commit is in master, you’ll need to cherry-pick the commit to the intended release branch. You can do this by first creating a local branch that is based off the release branch, for example:

git fetch --all
git checkout -b backport-my-fix upstream/release-0.6

Then go ahead and cherry-pick the commit using the hash of the commit itself, not the merge commit hash:

The last step is to open a PR with the base being the intended release branch. Once the PR is approved and merged, then your backported change will be available in the next release.