Wow, we really appreciate that you even looked at this section! We are trying to make the worlds best atomic building blocks for financial services that accelerate innovation in banking and we need your help!
You only have a fresh set of eyes once! The easiest way to contribute is to give feedback on the documentation that you are reading right now. This can be as simple as sending a message to our Google Group with your feedback or updating the markdown in this documentation and issuing a pull request.
Stability is the hallmark of any good software. If you find an edge case that isn't handled please open an GitHub issue with the example data so that we can make our software more robust for everyone. We also welcome pull requests if you want to get your hands dirty.
Have a use case that we don't handle; or handle well! Start the discussion on our Google Group or open a GitHub Issue. We want to make the project meet the needs of the community and keeps you using our code.
Please review our Code of Conduct to ensure you agree with the values of this project.
We use GitHub to manage reviews of pull requests.
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If you have a trivial fix or improvement, go ahead and create a pull request, addressing (with
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If you plan to do something more involved, first propose your ideas in a Github issue. This will avoid unnecessary work and surely give you and us a good deal of inspiration.
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Relevant coding style guidelines are the Go Code Review Comments and the Formatting and style section of Peter Bourgon's Go: Best Practices for Production Environments.
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When in doubt follow the Go Proverbs
Before starting please make sure you have Go setup and can build our projects from source.
This project uses Go Modules and thus requires Go 1.11+. You can download the source code and we offer tagged and released versions as well. We highly recommend you use a tagged release for production.
# Just pull down into the Go Module's cache, not the source code.
$ go get -u github.com/moov-io/watchman
$ go doc github.com/moov-io/watchman/pkg/ofac SDN
You can pull a working repository of our code code with git:
$ mkdir -p moov/
$ cd moov/
$ git clone [email protected]:moov-io/watchman.git
We recommend using additional git remote's for pushing/pulling code. This allows you to use the same repository for submitting patches as tracking our code.
First, Fork our project somewhere and after that's done add the remote:
$ cd moov/watchman # Whereever this project's source code is
$ git remote add $user [email protected]:$user/watchman.git # After
$ git fetch $user
Now, feel free to branch and push (git push $user $branch) to your remote and send us Pull Requests!
A good quality PR will have the following characteristics:
- It will be a complete piece of work that adds value in some way.
- It will have a title that reflects the work within, and a summary that helps to understand the context of the change.
- There will be well written commit messages, with well crafted commits that tell the story of the development of this work.
- Ideally it will be small and easy to understand. Single commit PRs are usually easy to submit, review, and merge.
- The code contained within will meet the best practices set by the team wherever possible.
- The code is able to be merged.
- A PR does not end at submission though. A code change is not made until it is merged and used in production.
A good PR should be able to flow through a peer review system easily and quickly.
Our Build pipeline utilizes Travis-CI to enforce many tools that you should add to your editor before issuing a pull request. Learn more about these tools on our Go Report card