Thanks for your interest in contributing to Jina console. We're grateful for your initiative! ❤️
The best way to know more about contributing and how to get started is to join us on Slack and ask questions in our public channels.
In this guide we're going to go through the steps for each kind of contribution, and good and bad examples of what to do. We look forward to your contributions!
- 🏁 Before you Start
- 🐞 Bugs and Issues
- 💻 Running Console locally
- ☑️ Naming Conventions
- 🧪 Testing Locally and on CI
- 📖 Contributing Documentation
- 💬 Getting Support
- 🙏 Thank You
Make sure you've read through our README, Jina 101, and example tutorials so you have a good understanding of what Jina is and how it works.
We're happy for any contributions, code or not. If you'd like to write a blog post, record a podcast, organize a meetup, or anything else to contribute to Jina, we'd love to hear from you!
- Contribute docs
- For other contributions, please get in touch to discuss on Slack
We love to get issue reports. But we love it even more if they're in the right format. For any bugs you encounter, we need you to:
- Describe your problem: What exactly is the bug. Be as clear and concise as possible
- Why do you think it's happening? If you have any insight, here's where to share it
There are also a couple of nice to haves:
- Environment: You can find this with
jina --version-full
- Screenshots, Logs: If they're relevant
Right now we're working on a list of things we want help with and easy-to-fix bugs suitable for first-time contributors. Stay tuned to:
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Fork this repository by clicking on fork button on the top right. This will create a copy of this repository on your account.
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Clone your fork. Get the URL of your fork by clicking on
code
button on GitHub. Clone it to your local with commandgit clone <URL you copied>
git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/dashboard.git
. -
Install dependencies using command
npm i
.cd dashboard
npm i
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Run dashboard via the following ways .
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npm run start_dev-server
testServer will be running on
http://localhost:5000
by default -
npm run dashboard start
Dashboard will be served on
http://localhost:3000
by default
npm run dashboard build
node dashboard
- dashboard will be served on
http://localhost:3030
by default
Note: features like the hub and GitHub login will not work when running locally as they are restricted to the dashboard.jina.ai
origin. They are not necessary to view logs or interact with flows. If you would like to browse the hub do so from dashboard.jina.ai.
- Associate your local git config with your github account. If this is your first time using git you can follow the steps.
- Fork the Jina repo and clone onto your computer. By default,
git
won't clonejina/hub
as it is a submodule maintained atjina-ai/jina-hub
. Please follow the steps for details. - Create a new branch, for example
fix-jina-typo-1
. - Work on this branch to do the fix/improvement.
- Check if your code changes follow the code review guidelines.
- Commit the changes with the correct commit style.
- Make a pull request.
- Submit your pull request and wait for all checks to pass.
- Request reviews from one of the code owners.
- Get a LGTM 👍 and PR gets merged.
Note: If you're just fixing a typo or grammatical issue, you can go straight to a pull request.
- Confirm username and email on your profile page.
- Set git config on your computer.
git config user.name "YOUR GITHUB NAME"
git config user.email "YOUR GITHUB EMAIL"
- (Optional) Reset the commit author if you made commits before you set the git config.
git checkout YOUR-WORKED-BRANCH
git commit --amend --author="YOUR-GITHUB-NAME <YOUR-GITHUB-EMAIL>" --no-edit
git log # to confirm the change is effective
git push --force
For branches, commits, and PRs we follow some basic naming conventions:
- Be descriptive
- Use all lower-case
- Limit punctuation
- Include one of our specified types
- Short (under 70 characters is best)
- In general, follow the Conventional Commit guidelines
Note: If you don't follow naming conventions, your commit will be automatically flagged to be fixed.
Type is an important prefix in PR, commit message. For each branch, commit, or PR, we need you to specify the type to help us keep things organized. For example,
feat: add hat wobble
^--^ ^------------^
| |
| +-> Summary in present tense.
|
+-------> Type: chore, docs, feat, fix, refactor, style, or test.
- build: Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies (example scopes: gulp, broccoli, npm)
- ci: Changes to our CI configuration files and scripts (example scopes: Travis, Circle, BrowserStack, SauceLabs)
- docs: Documentation only changes
- feat: A new feature
- fix: A bug fix
- perf: A code change that improves performance
- refactor: A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
- style: Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code (white-space, formatting, missing semi-colons, etc)
- test: Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests
- chore: updating grunt tasks etc; no production code change
Your branch name should follow the format type-scope(-issue_id)
:
type
is one of the types abovescope
is optional, and represents the module your branch is working on.issue_id
is the GitHub issue number. Having the correct issue number will automatically link the Pull Request on this branch to that issue.
Good examples:
fix-executor-loader-113
chore-update-version
docs-add-cloud-section-33
Bad examples:
Branch name | Feedback |
---|---|
FIXAWESOME123 |
Not descriptive enough, all caps, doesn't follow spec |
NEW-test-1 |
Should be lower case, not descriptive |
mybranch-1 |
No type, not descriptive |
A good commit message helps us track Jina's development. A Pull Request with a bad commit message will be rejected automatically in the CI pipeline.
Commit messages should stick to our naming conventions outlined above, and use the format type(scope?): subject
:
type
is one of the types above.scope
is optional, and represents the module your commit is working on.subject
explains the commit, without an ending period.
For example, a commit that fixes a bug in the executor module should be phrased as: fix(executor): fix the bad naming in init function
Good examples:
fix(indexer): fix wrong sharding number in indexer
feat: add remote api
Bad examples:
Commit message | Feedback |
---|---|
doc(101): improved 101 document |
Should be docs(101) |
tests(flow): add unit test for flow exception |
Should be test(flow) |
DOC(101): Improved 101 Documentation |
All letters should be in lowercase |
fix(pea): i fix this pea and this looks really awesome and everything should be working now |
Too long |
fix(pea):fix network receive of the pea |
Missing space after : |
hello: add hello-world |
Type hello is not allowed |
We all make mistakes. GitHub has a guide on rewriting commit messages to they can adhere to our standards.
You can also install commitlint onto your own machine and check your commit message by running:
echo "<commit message>" | commitlint
We don't enforce naming of PRs and branches, but we recommend you follow the same style. It can simply be one of your commit messages, just copy/paste it, e.g. fix(readme): improve the readability and move sections
.
We use jest for unit tests and cypress for integration tests.
To run unit tests, run npm test
To run integration tests, run npm run cy:run
Good docs make developers happy, and we love happy developers! We've got a few different types of docs:
- General documentation
- Tutorials/examples
- Docstrings in Python functions in RST format - generated by Sphinx
This covers files like Jina 101, Input and Output Functions, etc.
These are typically written in Markdown, though some may be in RestructuredText.
If you're just correcting a typo, feel free to make a pull request. For bigger ones, check out our getting support section to get in touch and discuss more.
This is anything under the Jina Examples repo.
If you're submitting a new example, be sure to get a good grounding in Jina, go through our previous examples, and test your code.
If you're making small tweaks to an existing example, make a pull request. For bigger ones, check out our getting support section to get in touch and discuss more.
Docstrings are how we document Jina's functions. This is suitable for more experienced documentation writers who understand Python functions, docstring formatting, and RestructuredText format.
To build documentation locally, you need Docker installed. Clone this repository and run the following command:
bash ./scripts/make-doc.sh serve 8080
The documentation is then available in your browser at http://0.0.0.0:8080/
.
We're always happy to lend a hand, answer questions, or listen to feedback. You find us here:
We're also looking at starting online developer hangouts, so you can catch up with us over chat and video, and get to meet your fellow Jina contributors.
Once again, thanks so much for your interest in contributing to Jina. We're excited to see your contributions!