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Contributing to Puppet modules

So you want to contribute to a Puppet module? Great! Follow our guidelines to familiarize yourself with our expectations around code quality, and learn some tips to make the contribution process as easy as possible.

Community Slack channels

Join the #bolt channel in the Puppet community Slack where Bolt developers and community members who use and contribute to Bolt discuss the tool.

Getting started

  • Fork the module repository on GitHub and clone to your workspace.
  • Make your changes!

Commit checklist

The basics

  • My commit is a single logical unit of work.
  • I have checked for unnecessary whitespace with git diff --check.
  • My commit does not include commented out code or unneeded files.

The content

  • My commit includes tests for the bug I fixed or feature I added.
  • My commit includes appropriate documentation changes if it is introducing a new feature or changing existing functionality.
  • My code passes existing test suites.

The commit message

  • The first line of my commit message includes:
    • An issue number (if applicable). For example, (GH-xxxx) This is the first line.
    • A short description (50 characters is the soft limit, excluding ticket number(s)).
  • The body of my commit message:
    • Is meaningful.
    • Uses the imperative, present tense: "change", not "changed" or "changes".
    • Includes motivation for the change, and contrasts its implementation with the previous behavior.

Testing

Getting started

Our Puppet modules provide Gemfiles, which can tell a Ruby package manager such as bundler what Ruby packages, or gems, are required to build, develop, and test this software.

Please make sure you have bundler installed on your system, and use it to install all dependencies needed for this project in the project root by running:

$ bundle install --path .bundle/gems

NOTE: some systems may require you to run this command with sudo.

If you already have those gems installed, make sure they are up to date:

$ bundle update

Running tests

With all dependencies in place and up to date, run the tests:

$ bundle exec rake spec

This executes all the RSpec tests in the directories defined here and so on. RSpec tests may have the same kind of dependencies as the module they are testing. Although the module defines these dependencies in its metadata.json, RSpec tests define them in .fixtures.yml.

Submission

Pre-requisites

Push and pull request

More about commits

Make separate commits for logically separate changes.

Please break your commits down into logically consistent units which include new or changed tests relevant to the rest of the change. The goal of doing this is to make the diff easier to read for whoever is reviewing your code. In general, the easier your diff is to read, the more likely someone will be happy to review it and get it into the code base.

If you are going to refactor a piece of code, please do so as a separate commit from your feature or bug fix changes.

We also really appreciate changes that include tests to make sure the bug is not re-introduced, and that the feature is not accidentally broken in a future change.

Describe the technical detail of the change(s). If your description starts to get too long, that is a good sign that you probably need to split up your commit into more finely grained pieces.

A commit is much more likely to be merged with a minimum of bike-shedding or requested changes if you:

  • Plainly describe the feature or patch that you're introducing with the intention of helping reviewers and future developers understand the code.
  • Include information that will help reviewers to check and test your code.
  • Include information in your commit message that would be suitable for inclusion in the release notes for the version of Puppet that includes the change.

Please also check that you are not introducing any trailing whitespace or other "whitespace errors". You can do this by running git diff --check on your changes before you commit.

Sending your patches

To submit your changes via a GitHub pull request, we highly recommend that you have them on a topic branch, instead of directly on the main branch. It makes things much easier to keep track of, especially if you decide to work on another thing before your first change is merged in.

GitHub has some pretty good general documentation on using their site. They also have documentation on creating pull requests.

In general, after pushing your topic branch up to your repository on GitHub, you can switch to the branch in the GitHub UI and click "Pull Request" towards the top of the page in order to open a pull request.

Update the related GitHub issue.

If there is a GitHub issue associated with the change you submitted, link the issue to your pull request.

If you have commit access to the repository

Even if you have commit access to the repository, you still need to go through the process above, and have someone else review and merge in your changes. The rule is that all changes must be reviewed by a project developer that did not write the code to ensure that all changes go through a code review process.

The record of someone performing the merge is the record that they performed the code review. Again, this should be someone other than the author of the topic branch.

Github resources