Welcome, and thank you for your interest in contributing to PSRule!
There are many ways in which you can contribute, beyond writing code. The goal of this document is to provide a high-level overview of how you can get involved.
- Reporting issues
- Fix bugs or add features
This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.
When you submit a pull request, a CLA-bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., label, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repositories using our CLA.
This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.
Have you identified a reproducible problem? Have a feature request? We want to hear about it! Here's how you can make reporting your issue as effective as possible.
Before you create a new issue, please do a search in open issues to see if the issue or feature request has already been filed.
If you find your issue already exists, make relevant comments and add your reaction. Use a reaction in place of a "+1" comment:
- 👍 - upvote
- Before writing a fix or feature enhancement, ensure that an issue is logged.
- Be prepared to discuss a feature and take feedback.
- Include unit tests and updates documentation to complement the change.
When you are ready to contribute a fix or feature:
- Start by forking the PSRule-vscode.
- Create a new branch from main in your fork.
- Add commits in your branch.
- If you have updated module code or rules also update
CHANGELOG.md
. - You don't need to update the
CHANGELOG.md
for changes to unit tests or documentation. - Try building your changes locally. See [building from source][build] for instructions.
- If you have updated module code or rules also update
- Create a pull request to merge changes into the PSRule
main
branch.- If you are ready for your changes to be reviewed create a pull request.
- If you are not ready for your changes to be reviewed, create a draft pull request.
- An continuous integration (CI) process will automatically build your changes.
- You changes must build successfully to be merged.
- If you have any build errors, push new commits to your branch.
- Avoid using forced pushes or squashing changes while in review, as this makes reviewing your changes harder.
When contributing to documentation or code changes, you'll need to have a GitHub account and a basic understanding of Git. Check out the links below to get started.
- Make sure you have a GitHub account.
- GitHub Help:
You should use the multi-platform Visual Studio Code (VS Code). The project contains a number of workspace specific settings that make it easier to author consistently.
When creating a pull request to merge your changes, a continuous integration (CI) pipeline is run. The CI pipeline will build then test your changes across MacOS, Linux and Windows configurations.
Before opening a pull request try building your changes locally.
Your contributions to open source, large or small, make great projects like this possible. Thank you for taking the time to contribute.