BLT feature requests, bugs, support requests, and milestones are tracked via the BLT GitHub issue queue.
Before submitting an issue or pull request, please read and take the time to understand this guide. Issues not adhering to these guidelines may be closed.
Please choose your issue type carefully. If you aren't sure, odds are you have a support request.
- Feature request: a request for a specific enhancement to be made to BLT. This is distinct from a bug in that it represents a gap in BLT functionality, rather than an instance of BLT behaving badly. It is distinct from a support request in that it has a specific and atomic request for new BLT functionality, rather than being a general request for help or guidance.
- Bug report: a clearly defined instance of BLT not behaving as expected. It is distinct from a feature request in that it represents a mismatch between what BLT does and what BLT claims to do. It is distinct from a support request in that it has specific steps to reproduce the problem (ideally starting from a fresh installation of BLT) and justification as to why this is a problem with BLT rather than an underlying tool such as Composer or Drush.
- Support request: a request for help or guidance. Use this if you aren't sure how to do something or can't find a solution to a problem that may or may not be a bug. Before filing a support request, please review the FAQ for solutions to common problems and general troubleshooting techniques. If you have an Acquia subscription, consider filing a Support ticket instead of a BLT issue in order to receive support subject to your SLA.
After you have chosen your issue type, make sure to fill out the issue template completely.
Newly-filed issues will be triaged by a BLT maintainer. If additional information is requested and no reply is received within a week, issues may be closed.
Note the following when submitting issues:
- Issues filed directly to the BLT project are not subject to an SLA.
- BLT is distributed under the GPLv2 license; all documentation, code, and guidance is provided without warranty.
- The project maintainers are under no obligation to respond to support requests, feature requests, or pull requests.
Please note the branch statuses documented in the README and GitHub page:
- Pull requests for enhancements will only be accepted for the active development branch.
- Pull requests for bug fixes will only be accepted for supported branches.
- When submitting a pull request for a bug fix or enhancement that may apply to multiple branches, please submit only a single PR to the latest development branch for review. A maintainer will backport the fix if appropriate.
Pull requests must also adhere to the following guidelines:
- PRs should be atomic and targeted at a single issue rather than broad-scope.
- PRs must contain clear testing steps and justification, as well as all other information required by the pull request template.
- PRs must pass automated tests before they will be reviewed. We recommend you run the tests locally before submitting (see below).
- PRs must comply with Drupal coding standards and best practices as defined by the project maintainers.
Pull requests will be reviewed by a BLT maintainer and are not subject to an SLA. If additional information or work is requested and no reply is received within a week, PRs may be closed.
If you'd like to contribute by actively developing BLT, we suggest that you clone BLT and also created a BLT-ed project for testing your changes.
Use the following commands to create a testable BLT-created project alongside BLT
git clone https://github.com/acquia/blt.git
rm -rf blted8
composer install --working-dir=blt
cd blt
./vendor/bin/robo create:from-symlink
The new blted8
directory will have a composer dependency on your local clone of BLT via a ../blt
symlink. You can therefore make changes to files in blt
and see them immediately reflected in blted8/vendor/acquia/blt
.
To execute the same "release" testing that is performed during CI execution, run:
./vendor/bin/robo release:test
Note that this requires the following:
- Four local MySQL databases available with drupal, drupal2, drupal3, and drupal4 as the db names
- A MySQL user with access to the above, with drupal as the username and password. It may be sensitive to MySQL version. In newer versions of MySQL (8+), you may need to set the user password like so:
alter user 'drupal'@'localhost' identified with mysql_native_password by 'drupal';
. - The PHP MySQL extension to be enabled.
- Chromedriver, sqlite, and the php-sqlite3 extension in order to run
@group drupal
tests. - You may want to exclude
@group requires-vm
.