Thanks for taking the time to join our community and start contributing. These guidelines will help you get started with the Contour project. Please note that we require DCO sign off.
Read this document for website specific guildlines: Site Contribution Guidelines. Guidelines in this document still apply to website contributions.
This section describes how to build Contour from source.
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Install Go
Contour requires Go 1.12 or later. We also assume that you're familiar with Go's
GOPATH
workspace convention, and have the appropriate environment variables set.
Contour uses go modules
for dependency management.
go get github.com/projectcontour/contour
Go is very particular when it comes to the location of the source code in your $GOPATH
.
The easiest way to make the go
tool happy is to rename Contour's remote location to something else, and substitute your fork for origin
.
For example, to set origin
to your fork, run this command substituting your GitHub username where appropriate.
git remote rename origin upstream
git remote add origin [email protected]:davecheney/contour.git
This ensures that the source code on disk remains at $GOPATH/src/github.com/projectcontour/contour
while the remote repository is configured for your fork.
The remainder of this document assumes your terminal's working directory is $GOPATH/src/github.com/projectcontour/contour
.
To build Contour, run:
make
This uses a go install
and produces a contour
binary in your $GOPATH/bin
directory.
Once you have Contour building, you can run all the unit tests for the project:
make check
This assumes your working directory is set to $GOPATH/src/github.com/projectcontour/contour
.
To run the tests for a single package, change to package directory and run:
go test .
This section describes the process for contributing a bug fix or new feature. It follows from the previous section, so if you haven't set up your Go workspace and built Contour from source, do that first.
This project operates according to the talk, then code rule. If you plan to submit a pull request for anything more than a typo or obvious bug fix, first you should raise an issue to discuss your proposal, before submitting any code.
Depending on the size of the feature you may be expected to first write a design proposal. A proposal template is available here
- Have a short subject on the first line and a body. The body can be empty.
- Use the imperative mood (ie "If applied, this commit will (subject)" should make sense).
- There must be a DCO line ("Signed-off-by: David Cheney [email protected]"), see DCO Sign Off below
- Put a summary of the main area affected by the commit at the start, with a colon as delimiter. For example 'docs:', 'internal/(packagename):', 'design:' or something similar.
- Try to keep your number of commits in a PR low. Generally we tend to squash before opening the PR, then have PR feedback as extra commits.
- Do not merge commits that don't relate to the affected issue (e.g. "Updating from PR comments", etc). Should the need to cherrypick a commit or rollback arise, it should be clear what a specific commit's purpose is.
- If master has moved on, you'll need to rebase before we can merge, so merging upstream master or rebasing from upstream before opening your PR will probably save you some time.
- PRs must include a
Fixes #NNNN
orUpdates #NNNN
comment. Remember thatFixes
will close the associated issue, andUpdates
will link the PR to it.
<packagename>: <imperative mood short description>
Updates #NNNN
Fixes #MMMM
Signed-off-by: Your Name [email protected]
<longer change description/justification>
internal\contour: Add quux functions
Fixes #xxyyz
Signed-off-by: Your Name [email protected]
To implement the quux functions from #xxyyz, we need to
florble the greep dots, then ensure that the florble is
warbed.
Before a change is submitted it should pass all the pre commit CI jobs. If there are unrelated test failures the change can be merged so long as a reference to an issue that tracks the test failures is provided.
Once a change lands in master it will be built and available at this tag, docker.io/projectcontour/contour:master
.
You can read more about the available contour images in the tagging document.
To build an image of your change using Contour's Dockerfile
, run these commands (replacing the repository host and tag with your own):
docker build -t docker.io/davecheney/contour:latest .
docker push docker.io/davecheney/contour:latest
or, you can use the make helper, like so:
REGISTRY=docker.io/davecheney VERSION=latest make push
This will push to :latest
in docker.io/davecheney
obviously you'll also need to replace the repo host with your own here too. If you don't specify VERSION
, make push
will push to a git hash tag (the output of git rev-parse --short=8 --verify HEAD
).
To verify your change by deploying the image you built, take one of the deployment manifests, edit it to point to your new image, and deploy to your Kubernetes cluster.
All authors to the project retain copyright to their work. However, to ensure that they are only submitting work that they have rights to, we are requiring everyone to acknowledge this by signing their work.
Any copyright notices in this repository should specify the authors as "The project authors".
To sign your work, just add a line like this at the end of your commit message:
Signed-off-by: David Cheney <[email protected]>
This can easily be done with the --signoff
option to git commit
.
By doing this you state that you can certify the following (from https://developercertificate.org/):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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.