There is a great need for contributions to Salt and patches are welcome! The goal here is to make contributions clear, make sure there is a trail for where the code has come from, and most importantly, to give credit where credit is due!
There are a number of ways to contribute to Salt development.
For details on how to contribute documentation improvements please review Writing Salt Documentation.
Sending pull requests on GitHub is the preferred method for receiving contributions. The workflow advice below mirrors GitHub's own guide and is well worth reading.
Fork saltstack/salt on GitHub.
Make a local clone of your fork.
git clone git@github.com:my-account/salt.git
cd salt
Add saltstack/salt as a git remote.
git remote add upstream https://github.com/saltstack/salt.git
Create a new branch in your clone.
注解
A branch should have one purpose. For example, "Fix bug X," or "Add feature Y". Multiple unrelated fixes and/or features should be isolated into separate branches.
If you're working on a bug or documentation fix, create your branch from the oldest release branch that contains the bug or requires the documentation update. See Which Salt Branch?.
git fetch upstream
git checkout -b fix-broken-thing upstream/2015.5
If you're working on a feature, create your branch from the develop branch.
git fetch upstream
git checkout -b add-cool-feature upstream/develop
Edit and commit changes to your branch.
vim path/to/file1 path/to/file2
git diff
git add path/to/file1 path/to/file2
git commit
Write a short, descriptive commit title and a longer commit message if necessary.
注解
If your change fixes a bug or implements a feature already filed in the issue tracker, be sure to reference the issue number in the commit message body.
fix broken things in file1 and file2
Fixes #31337. The issue is now eradicated from file1 and file2.
# Please enter the commit message for your changes. Lines starting
# with '#' will be ignored, and an empty message aborts the commit.
# On branch fix-broken-thing
# Changes to be committed:
# modified: path/to/file1
# modified: path/to/file2
If you get stuck, there are many introductory Git resources on http://help.github.com.
Push your locally-committed changes to your GitHub fork,
注解
You may want to rebase before pushing to work out any potential conflicts.
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/2015.5 fix-broken-thing
git push --set-upstream origin fix-broken-thing
or,
git fetch upstream
git rebase upstream/develop add-cool-feature
git push --set-upstream origin add-cool-feature
Find the branch on your GitHub salt fork.
https://github.com/my-account/salt/branches/fix-broken-thing
Open a new pull request.
Click on Pull Request
on the right near the top of the page,
https://github.com/my-account/salt/pull/new/fix-broken-thing
If your branch is a fix for a release branch, choose that as the base
branch (e.g. 2015.5
),
https://github.com/my-account/salt/compare/saltstack:2015.5...fix-broken-thing
If your branch is a feature, choose develop
as the base branch,
https://github.com/my-account/salt/compare/saltstack:develop...add-cool-feature
Review that the proposed changes are what you expect.
Write a descriptive comment. Include links to related issues (e.g. 'Fixes #31337.') in the comment field.
Click Create pull request
.
Salt project members will review your pull request and automated tests will run on it.
If you recognize any test failures as being related to your proposed changes or if a reviewer asks for modifications:
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Jenkins
Pull request against saltstack/salt are automatically tested on a variety of operating systems and configurations. On average these tests take 30 minutes. Depending on your GitHub notification settings you may also receive an email message about the test results.
Test progress and results can be found at http://jenkins.saltstack.com/.
GitHub will open pull requests against Salt's main branch, develop
, by
default. Ideally, features should go into develop
and bug fixes and
documentation changes should go into the oldest supported release branch
affected by the bug or documentation update. See
Sending a GitHub pull request.
If you have a bug fix or doc change and have already forked your working
branch from develop
and do not know how to rebase your commits against
another branch, then submit it to develop
anyway and we'll be sure to
back-port it to the correct place.
The current release branch is the most recent stable release. Pull requests containing bug fixes should be made against the release branch.
The branch name will be a date-based name such as 2015.5
.
Bug fixes are made on this branch so that minor releases can be cut from this branch without introducing surprises and new features. This approach maximizes stability.
The Salt development team will "merge-forward" any fixes made on the release
branch to the develop
branch once the pull request has been accepted. This
keeps the fix in isolation on the release branch and also keeps the develop
branch up-to-date.
注解
Closing GitHub issues from commits
This "merge-forward" strategy requires that the magic keywords to close a GitHub issue appear in the commit message text directly. Only including the text in a pull request will not close the issue.
GitHub will close the referenced issue once the commit containing the
magic text is merged into the default branch (develop
). Any magic text
input only into the pull request description will not be seen at the
Git-level when those commits are merged-forward. In other words, only the
commits are merged-forward and not the pull request.
develop
branch¶The develop
branch is unstable and bleeding-edge. Pull requests containing
feature additions or non-bug-fix changes should be made against the develop
branch.
The Salt development team will back-port bug fixes made to develop
to the
current release branch if the contributor cannot create the pull request
against that branch.
Salt is advancing quickly. It is therefore critical to pull upstream changes from upstream into your fork on a regular basis. Nothing is worse than putting hard work into a pull request only to see bunches of merge conflicts because it has diverged too far from upstream.
The following assumes origin
is the name of your fork and upstream
is
the name of the main saltstack/salt repository.
View existing remotes.
git remote -v
Add the upstream
remote.
# For ssh github
git remote add upstream git@github.com:saltstack/salt.git
# For https github
git remote add upstream https://github.com/saltstack/salt.git
Pull upstream changes into your clone.
git fetch upstream
Update your copy of the develop
branch.
git checkout develop
git merge --ff-only upstream/develop
If Git complains that a fast-forward merge is not possible, you have local commits.
git pull --rebase origin develop
to rebase your changes on top of
the upstream changes.git branch <branch-name>
to create a new branch with your
commits. You will then need to reset your develop
branch before
updating it with the changes from upstream.If Git complains that local files will be overwritten, you have changes to
files in your working directory. Run git status
to see the files in
question.
Update your fork.
git push origin develop
Repeat the previous two steps for any other branches you work with, such as the current release branch.
Patches will also be accepted by email. Format patches using git format-patch and send them to the salt-users mailing list. The contributor will then get credit for the patch, and the Salt community will have an archive of the patch and a place for discussion.
If a bug is fixed on develop
and the bug is also present on a
currently-supported release branch it will need to be back-ported to all
applicable branches.
注解
Most Salt contributors can skip these instructions
These instructions do not need to be read in order to contribute to the Salt project! The SaltStack team will back-port fixes on behalf of contributors in order to keep the contribution process easy.
These instructions are intended for frequent Salt contributors, advanced Git users, SaltStack employees, or independent souls who wish to back-port changes themselves.
It is often easiest to fix a bug on the oldest supported release branch and
then merge that branch forward into develop
(as described earlier in this
document). When that is not possible the fix must be back-ported, or copied,
into any other affected branches.
These steps assume a pull request #1234
has been merged into develop
.
And upstream
is the name of the remote pointing to the main Salt repo.
Identify the oldest supported release branch that is affected by the bug.
Create a new branch for the back-port by reusing the same branch from the original pull request.
Name the branch bp-<NNNN>
and use the number of the original pull
request.
git fetch upstream refs/pull/1234/head:bp-1234
git checkout bp-1234
Find the parent commit of the original pull request.
The parent commit of the original pull request must be known in order to rebase onto a release branch. The easiest way to find this is on GitHub.
Open the original pull request on GitHub and find the first commit in the
list of commits. Select and copy the SHA for that commit. The parent of
that commit can be specified by appending ~1
to the end.
Rebase the new branch on top of the release branch.
<release-branch>
is the branch identified in step #1.<orig-base>
is the SHA identified in step #3 -- don't forget to add
~1
to the end!git rebase --onto <release-branch> <orig-base> bp-1234
Note, release branches prior to 2015.5
will not be able to make use of
rebase and must use cherry-picking instead.
Push the back-port branch to GitHub and open a new pull request.
Opening a pull request for the back-port allows for the test suite and normal code-review process.
git push -u origin bp-1234
SaltStack uses several labeling schemes to help facilitate code contributions and bug resolution. See the Labels and Milestones documentation for more information.