We'd love to have you join the community! Below summarizes the processes that we follow.
Before reporting an issue, check our backlog of open issues to see if someone else has already reported it. If so, feel free to add your scenario, or additional information, to the discussion. Or simply "subscribe" to it to be notified when it is updated.
If you find a new issue with the project we'd love to hear about it! The most important aspect of a bug report is that it includes enough information for us to reproduce it. So, please include as much detail as possible and try to remove the extra stuff that doesn't really relate to the issue itself. The easier it is for us to reproduce it, the faster it'll be fixed!
Please don't include any private/sensitive information in your issue!
No pull request (PR) is too small! Typos, additional comments in the code, new test cases, bug fixes, new features, more documentation, ... it's all welcome!
While bug fixes can first be identified via an issue, that is not required. It's ok to just open up a PR with the fix, but make sure you include the same information you would have included in an issue - like how to reproduce it.
PRs for new features should include some background on what use cases the new code is trying to address. When possible and when it makes sense, try to break up larger PRs into smaller ones - it's easier to review smaller code changes. But only if those smaller ones make sense as stand-alone PRs.
Commits that fix issues should include one or more footers like Closes: #XXX
or Fixes: #XXX
at the
end of the commit message. GitHub will automatically close the referenced issue when the PR is merged
and the changelog will include the issue.
While not a requirement, try to use conventional commits for your commit messages. It makes creating the changelog via git-cliff easier.
For a PR to be merged, each commit must contain a Signed-off-by
footer. The sign-off is a
line at the end of the explanation for the commit. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch
or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch.
The rules are simple: if you can certify the following (from developercertificate.org):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
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.
Then you just add a line to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions).
If you set your user.name
and user.email
git configs, you can sign your
commit automatically with git commit -s
.
Podlet is a normal Rust project, so once Rust is installed, the source code can be cloned and built with:
git clone [email protected]:containers/podlet.git
cd podlet
cargo build
Release builds are created with the dist
profile:
cargo build --profile dist
A number of jobs are automatically run for each pull request and merge. If you are submitting code changes and would like to run the CI jobs locally, below is a list of all the jobs with explanations and the commands that they run.
- format:
- Ensures consistent formatting for all Rust code.
cargo fmt --check
- clippy:
- Clippy is a collection of lints for Rust.
- If Rust is installed via
rustup
, install Clippy withrustup component add clippy
. - Lints are configured in the
Cargo.toml
file. - It's ok to use
#[allow(...)]
to override a lint, but try to document the reasoning if it's not obvious. cargo clippy
- test:
- Unit tests are defined in the source.
- All tests should pass.
cargo test
- build:
- Ensures Podlet can build on all target platforms.
cargo build
- build-container:
- Ensures that the Podlet container can build for both x86 and ARM platforms.
- First, install Buildah.
buildah build --platform linux/amd64 -t podlet .
buildah build --platform linux/arm64/v8 -t podlet .
The Podlet project shares communication channels with other projects in the Containers organization.
For discussions about issues, bugs, or features, feel free to create an issue, discussion, or pull request on GitHub.