Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end).
Before we can use your code, you must sign the Google Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase. Before you start working on a larger contribution, you should get in touch with us first through the issue tracker with your idea so that we can help out and possibly guide you. Coordinating up front makes it much easier to avoid frustration later on.
All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose.
Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than the one above, the Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement.
This can optionally done within a virtualenv
.
If you plan on contributing, create your own fork of PerfKitBenchmarker to publish your changes. GitHub has a great tutorial (we follow the Fork & pull model).
- Clone the repository:
$ git clone git@github.com:<your-user-name>/PerfKitBenchmarker.git -b dev && cd PerfKitBenchmarker
- Install Python 2.7.
- Install pip:
$ sudo apt-get install -y python-pip
- Install PerfKitBenchmarker's Python dependencies:
$ [sudo] pip install -r requirements.txt
- Install PerfKitBenchmarker's test dependencies:
$ [sudo] pip install -r test-requirements.txt
- Install git pre-commit hooks, to enable linting and copyright checks:
$ hooks/install.sh
- Start from the
dev
branch in your forked repository.
$ git checkout dev
- Create a branch to contain your changes.
$ git checkout -b <your-branch-name>
- Make your modifications to the code in one or more commits (guidelines for useful git commit messages).
- Push your changes to GitHub
$ git push origin
- Create a pull request to integrate your change into the
dev
branch. This can be done on github.com, or by installing and using the command line toolhub
.
$ hub pull-request -h <your-branch-name> -b dev
When making a pull request on GitHub, please set the base branch of the Pull Request to dev
.
We have added a lot of comments into the code to make it easy to;
- Add new benchmarks (eg: --benchmarks=)
- Add new package/os type support (eg: --os_type=)
- Add new providers (eg: --cloud=)
- etc...
Even with lots of comments we make to support more detailed documention. You will find the documatation we have on the [Wiki pages] (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/wiki). Missing documentation you want? Start a page and/or open an [issue] (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker/issues) to get it added.