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Contributing to vcd-ui-common

The vcd-ui-common project team welcomes contributions from the community. Before you start working with vcd-ui-common, please read our Developer Certificate of Origin. All contributions to this repository must be signed as described on that page. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch.

Contribution Flow

This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like:

  • Create a topic branch from where you want to base your work
  • Make commits of logical units
  • Make sure your commit messages are in the proper format (see below)
  • Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository
  • Submit a pull request

Contribution Requirements

  • Public/exported members must be documented using tsdoc

  • Every commit must contain unit tests, striving for full coverage. If full coverage cannot be achieved, the Pull Request should explain why tests could not be written.

  • Descriptive Pull Requests:

    • Include list of steps for manual testing
    • Explain alternatives that were considered
    • For bug fixes, explain what was causing the issue, don't repeat the text from the issue

Merge vs fast-forward

PRs with single commits should use --fast-forward. Otherwise, pull requests should be merge commits.

Staying In Sync With Upstream

When your branch gets out of sync with the vmware/master branch, use the following to update:

git checkout my-new-feature
git fetch -a
git pull --rebase upstream master
git push --force-with-lease origin my-new-feature

Updating pull requests

If your PR fails to pass CI or needs changes based on code review, you'll most likely want to squash these changes into existing commits.

If your pull request contains a single commit or your changes are related to the most recent commit, you can simply amend the commit.

git add .
git commit --amend
git push --force-with-lease origin my-new-feature

If you need to squash changes into an earlier commit, you can use:

git add .
git commit --fixup <commit>
git rebase -i --autosquash master
git push --force-with-lease origin my-new-feature

Be sure to add a comment to the PR indicating your new changes are ready to review, as GitHub does not generate a notification when you git push.

Code Style

Formatting Commit Messages

We follow the conventions on How to Write a Git Commit Message.

Be sure to include any related GitHub issue references in the commit message. See GFM syntax for referencing issues and commits.

Reporting Bugs and Creating Issues

When opening a new issue, try to roughly follow the commit message format conventions above.