Contributing

Welcome to Kurator!

• Contributing
• Before you get started
  • Code of Conduct
  • Community Expectations
  • Dependence Compliance
• Getting started
• Your First Contribution
  • Find something to work on
    • Find a good first topic
      • Work on an issue
    • File an Issue
• Contributor Workflow
  • Creating Pull Requests
  • Code Review

Before you get started

Code of Conduct

Please make sure to read and observe our Code of Conduct.

Community Expectations

Kurator is a community project driven by its community which strives to promote a healthy, friendly and productive environment.

Kurator aims to help users to build their own distributed cloud native infrastructure and facilitates enterprise digital transformation.

Kurator aims to provide turnkey automation for multi-cluster application management in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud scenarios, and intended to realize multi-cloud centralized management, high availability, failure recovery and traffic scheduling.

Dependence Compliance

If your contribution involves changes to dependencies, please read dependence-compliance first. It outlines the guidelines for managing dependencies within the kurator project. Following these guidelines is important to ensure your changes can be properly reviewed and merged.

Getting started

• Fork the repository on GitHub.
• Make your changes on your fork repository.
• Submit a PR.

Your First Contribution

We will help you to contribute in different areas like filing issues, developing features, fixing critical bugs and getting your work reviewed and merged.

If you have questions about the development process, feel free to file an issue.

Find something to work on

We are always in need of help, be it fixing documentation, reporting bugs or writing some code. Look at places where you feel best coding practices aren't followed, code refactoring is needed or tests are missing. Here is how you get started.

Find a good first topic

There are multiple repositories within the Kurator organization. Each repository has beginner-friendly issues that provide a good first issue. For example, kurator-dev/kurator has help wanted and good first issue labels for issues that should not need deep knowledge of the system. We can help new contributors who wish to work on such issues.

Another good way to contribute is to find a documentation improvement, such as a missing/broken link. Please see Contributing below for the workflow.

Work on an issue

When you are willing to take on an issue, just reply on the issue. The maintainer will assign it to you.

File an Issue

While we encourage everyone to contribute code, it is also appreciated when someone reports an issue. Issues should be filed under the appropriate Kurator sub-repository.

Example: a Kurator issue should be opened to kurator-dev/kurator.

Please follow the prompted submission guidelines while opening an issue.

Contributor Workflow

Please do not ever hesitate to ask a question or send a pull request.

This is a rough outline of what a contributor's workflow looks like:

• Create a topic branch from where to base the contribution. This is usually master.
• Make commits of logical units.
• Push changes in a topic branch to a personal fork of the repository.
• Submit a pull request to kurator-dev/kurator.

Creating Pull Requests

Pull requests are often called simply "PR". Kurator generally follows the standard github pull request process. To submit a proposed change, please develop the code/fix and add new test cases. After that, run these local verifications before submitting pull request to predict the pass or fail of continuous integration.

• Run and pass make verify
• Run and pass make test

Code Review

To make it easier for your PR to receive reviews, consider the reviewers will need you to:

• follow good coding guidelines.
• write good commit messages.
• break large changes into a logical series of smaller patches which individually make easily understandable changes, and in aggregate solve a broader issue.