We'd love to have you join the community! Below summarizes the processes that we follow.
- Reporting Issues
- Working On Issues
- Submitting Pull Requests
- Sign your PRs
- Merge bot interaction
- Communications
- Becoming a Maintainer
Before reporting an issue, check our backlog of open issues to see if someone else has already reported it. If so, feel free to add your scenario, or additional information, to the discussion. Or simply "subscribe" to it to be notified when it is updated.
If you find a new issue with the project we'd love to hear about it! The most important aspect of a bug report is that it includes enough information for us to reproduce it. So, please include as much detail as possible and try to remove the extra stuff that doesn't really relate to the issue itself. The easier it is for us to reproduce it, the faster it'll be fixed!
Please don't include any private/sensitive information in your issue!
Once you have decided to contribute to Buildah by working on an issue, check our backlog of open issues looking for any that do not have an "In Progress" label attached to it. Often issues will be assigned to someone, to be worked on at a later time. If you have the time to work on the issue now, add yourself as an assignee, and set the "In Progress" label if you’re a member of the “Containers” GitHub organization. If you can not set the label, just add a quick comment in the issue asking that the “In Progress” label be set and a member will do so for you.
No Pull Request (PR) is too small! Typos, additional comments in the code, new testcases, bug fixes, new features, more documentation, ... it's all welcome!
While bug fixes can first be identified via an "issue", that is not required. It's ok to just open up a PR with the fix, but make sure you include the same information you would have included in an issue - like how to reproduce it.
PRs for new features should include some background on what use cases the new code is trying to address. When possible and when it makes sense, try to break-up larger PRs into smaller ones - it's easier to review smaller code changes. But only if those smaller ones make sense as stand-alone PRs.
Regardless of the type of PR, all PRs should include:
- well documented code changes
- additional testcases. Ideally, they should fail w/o your code change applied
- documentation changes
Squash your commits into logical pieces of work that might want to be reviewed separate from the rest of the PRs. But, squashing down to just one commit is ok too since in the end the entire PR will be reviewed anyway. When in doubt, squash.
PRs that fix issues should include a reference like Closes #XXXX in the
commit message so that github will automatically close the referenced issue
when the PR is merged.
The sign-off is a line at the end of the explanation for the patch. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are simple: if you can certify the below (from developercertificate.org):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
Then you just add a line to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <joe.smith@email.com>
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your
commit automatically with git commit -s.
Maintainers should never merge anything directly into upstream branches. Instead, interact with the openshift-ci-robot through PR comments as summarized here. This ensures all upstream branches contain commits in a predictable order, and that every commit has passed automated testing at some point in the past. A Maintainer portal is available, showing all PRs awaiting review and approval.
For general questions or discussions, please use the
IRC channel #podman on irc.libera.chat. If you are unfamiliar with IRC you can start a web client at https://web.libera.chat/#podman.
Alternatively, [matrix] can be used to access the same channel via federation at https://matrix.to/#/#podman:chat.fedoraproject.org.
You can also use GitHub issues and PRs tracking system.
You can join the Buildah mailing list by sending an email to buildah-join@lists.buildah.io with the word subscribe in the subject. You can also go to this page, then scroll down to the bottom of the page and enter your email and optionally name, then click on the "Subscribe" button.
To become a maintainer you must first be nominated by an existing maintainer. If a majority (>50%) of maintainers agree then the proposal is adopted and you will be added to the list.
Removing a maintainer requires at least 75% of the remaining maintainers approval, or if the person requests to be removed then it is automatic. Normally, a maintainer will only be removed if they are considered to be inactive for a long period of time or are viewed as disruptive to the community.
The current list of maintainers can be found in the MAINTAINERS file.