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Contributing Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in contributing to our project. Whether it's a bug report, new feature, correction, or additional documentation, we greatly value feedback and contributions from our community.

Please read through this document before submitting any issues or pull requests to ensure we have all the necessary information to effectively respond to your bug report or contribution.

Reporting Bugs/Feature Requests

We welcome you to use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs or suggest features.

When filing an issue, please check existing open, or recently closed, issues to make sure somebody else hasn't already reported the issue. Please try to include as much information as you can. Details like these are incredibly useful:

  • A reproducible test case or series of steps
  • The version of our code being used
  • Any modifications you've made relevant to the bug
  • Anything unusual about your environment or deployment

Contributing via Pull Requests

Contributions via pull requests are much appreciated. Before sending us a pull request, please ensure that:

  1. You are working against the latest source on the mainline branch.
  2. You check existing open, and recently merged, pull requests to make sure someone else hasn't addressed the problem already.
  3. You open an issue to discuss any significant work - we would hate for your time to be wasted. If there is an existing issue your are interested in working on, you should comment on it so others don't start working on the same issue.

To send us a pull request, please:

  1. Create a personal fork of the project on Github webpage. Clone the fork on your local machine.
  2. Add the original repository as a remote called upstream. Your remote repo on Github is called origin. 
    git remote add upstream https://github.com/amzn/pecos.git
git remote -v # Display all remotes to double-check
  3. If you created your fork a while ago, be sure to pull upstream changes into your local repository. 
    git checkout mainline
git pull -r upstream mainline
  4. Create a new branch from mainline to work on, or rebase your working branch on newest mainline. 
    git checkout -b <BRANCH NAME>
  5. Implement your code on the new branch:
    • Follow the code style of the project.
    • Write or adapt tests as needed.
    • Add or change the documentation as needed.
  6. Ensure local style/type checks and tests pass. First ensure you install the following for style-checking and unit-testing 
    pip install flake8 black mypy
    Then you can use the Makefile commands to check: 
    make clean
make format
make test
    Pass VFLAG=-v environment variable can trigger verbose mode for further debugging: 
    make clean VFLAG=-v
make format VFLAG=-v
make test VFLAG=-v
    Remember using make clean to clean up local build after code change and before unit test.
  7. Commit using clear messages. Squash your commits into a single commit.
  8. Push your branch to your fork origin on Github. 
    git push --set-upstream origin <BRANCH NAME>
  9. On GitHub webpage's pull request panel, open a pull request into original repository upstream from your fork. (NOTE: this is the default option if one does not make changes when creating PR)
    • Carefully fill out PR template
    • Click on "Draft PR" on drop-down menu to double-check by oneself
    • When ready, click on “Ready for review”
  10. Pay attention to any automated CI failures reported in the pull request, and stay involved in the conversation.
  11. If you need to make changes to the pull request, simply modify on your branch by amend the commit, and then force-push to your origin branch. The pull request will automatically update its timeline: 
    # Do modification
git commit -a --amend
git push -f
  12. Once the pull request is approved and merged, pull the changes from upstream to your local repo and delete your extra branch(es).

GitHub provides additional document on forking a repository and creating a pull request.

Finding contributions to work on

Looking at the existing issues is a great way to find something to contribute on. As our projects, by default, use the default GitHub issue labels (enhancement/bug/duplicate/help wanted/invalid/question/wontfix), looking at any 'Call for Contribution' or 'good first issue' issues is a great place to start.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opensource-codeofconduct@amazon.com with any additional questions or comments.

Security issue notifications

If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page. Please do not create a public github issue.

Licensing

See the LICENSE file for our project's licensing. We will ask you to confirm the licensing of your contribution.

We may ask you to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for larger changes.