CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing

General code rules

Submitting a pull request

Before you submit your pull request consider the following guidelines:

• Fork the repository and clone your fork

  • open the following URL in your browser: https://github.com/RedHatInsights/insights-content-service
  • click on the 'Fork' button (near the top right corner)
  • select the account for fork
  • open your forked repository in browser: https://github.com/YOUR_NAME/insights-content-service
  • click on the 'Clone or download' button to get a command that can be used to clone the repository

• Make your changes in a new git branch:

  git checkout -b bug/my-fix-branch master

• Create your patch, ideally including appropriate test cases

• Include documentation that either describe a change to a behavior or the changed capability to an end user

• Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message. If you are fixing an issue please include something like 'this closes issue #xyz'

  • Please make sure your tests pass!
  • Currently we use Travis CI for our automated testing.

• Push your branch to GitHub:

  git push origin bug/my-fix-branch

• When opening a pull request, select the master branch as a base.

• Mark your pull request with [WIP] (Work In Progress) to get feedback but prevent merging (e.g. [WIP] Update CONTRIBUTING.md)

• If we suggest changes then:

  • Make the required updates

  • Push changes to git (this will update your Pull Request):

    • You can add new commit
    • Or rebase your branch and force push to your GitHub repository:

    git rebase -i master
    git push -f origin bug/my-fix-branch

That's it! Thank you for your contribution!