The SOPS project welcomes contributions from everyone. Here are a few guidelines and instructions if you are thinking of helping with the development of SOPS.
- Make sure you have Go 1.19 or greater installed. You can find information on how to install Go here
- Clone the Git repository and switch into SOPS's directory.
- Run the tests with
make test
. They should all pass. - If you modify documentation (RST or MD files), run
make checkdocs
to run rstcheck and markdownlint. These should also pass. If you need help in fixing issues, create a pull request (see below) and ask for help. - Fork the project on GitHub.
- Add your fork to Git's remotes:
- If you use SSH authentication:
git remote add <your username> [email protected]:<your username>/sops.git
. - Otherwise:
git remote add <your username> https://github.com/<your username>/sops.git
.
- If you use SSH authentication:
- Make any changes you want to SOPS, commit them, and push them to your fork.
- Create a pull request against
main
, and a maintainer will come by and review your code. They may ask for some changes, and hopefully your contribution will be merged!
- Unless it's particularly hard, changes that fix a bug should have a regression test to make sure that the bug is not introduced again.
- New features and changes to existing features should be documented, and, if possible, tested.
If you need any help contributing to SOPS, several maintainers are on the
#sops-dev
channel on
the CNCF Slack.