We are glad you want to contribute to OneHealth projects! The first step is the desire to improve the project.
- Create an issue on the github issue tracker
- Link to your patch as a rebased git branch or pull request from the ticket
We regularly review contributions and will get back to you if we have any suggestions or concerns.
You should submit your patch as a git branch named after the change.
It is a best practice to have your commit message have a summary line, followed by an empty line and then a brief description of the commit. This also helps other contributors understand the purpose of changes to the code.
Remember that not all users use ruby in the same way or on the same operating systems as you, so it is helpful to be clear about your use case and change so they can understand it even when it doesn't apply to them.
We don't require you to use Github, and we will even take patch diffs attached to tickets on the issue tracker. However Github has a lot of convenient features, such as being able to see a diff of changes between a pull request and the main repository quickly without downloading the branch.
If any don't pass, investigate them before submitting your patch.
Any new feature should have unit tests included with the patch with good code coverage to help protect it from future changes. Similarly, patches that fix a bug or regression should have a regression test. Simply put, this is a test that would fail without your patch but passes with it. The goal is to ensure this bug doesn't regress in the future. Consider a regular expression that doesn't match a certain pattern that it should, so you provide a patch and a test to ensure that the part of the code that uses this regular expression works as expected. Later another contributor may modify this regular expression in a way that breaks your use cases. The test you wrote will fail, signalling to them to research your ticket and use case and accounting for it.
Please do ensure that your changes do not break or modify behavior for other platforms supported by the gem. For example if your changes are for Debian, make sure that they do not break on CentOS.
Please do not modify the version number, the maintainer will select the appropriate version based on the release cycle information above.
Please do not update the CHANGELOG.md for a new version. Not all changes to a gem may be merged and released in the same versions. OneHealth will update the CHANGELOG.md when releasing a new version of the gem.