Project: APISIX (Orchestration & Management / API Gateway)
File: CONTRIBUTING.md

<!-- --> Firstly, thanks for your interest in contributing! I hope that this will be a pleasant first experience for you, and that you will return to continue contributing. Most of the contributions that we receive are code contributions, but you can also contribute to the documentation or simply report solid bugs for us to fix. Nor is code the only way to contribute to the project. We strongly value documentation, integration with other project, and gladly accept improvements for these aspects. For new contributors, please take a look at issues with a tag called or . Ensure the bug was not already reported* by searching on GitHub under . If you're unable to find an open issue addressing the problem, . Be sure to include a title and clear description, as much relevant information as possible, and a code sample or an executable test case* demonstrating the expected behavior that is not occurring. Before making any significant changes, please . Discussing your proposed changes ahead of time will make the contribution process smooth for everyone. Once we've discussed your changes and you've got your code ready, make sure that tests are passing and open your pull request. Your PR is most likely to be accepted if it: Update the README.md with details of changes to the interface. Includes tests for new functionality. References the original issue in the description, e.g. "Resolves #123". Has a . Ensure your pull request's title starts from one of the word in the `types` section of . Follow the Linting/Style For linting both our Markdown and YAML files we use: npm based For linting all files' license header we use: For linting our shell files we use: For linting our zh document files we use: Active Voice In general, use active voice when formulating the sentence instead of passive voice. A sentence written in the active voice will emphasize the person or thing who is performing an action (eg.The dog chased the ball). In contrast, the passive voice will highlight the recipient of the action (The ball was chased by the dog). Therefore use the passive voice, only when it's less important who or what completed the action and more important that the action was completed. For example: Recommended: The key-auth plugin authenticates the

Not recommended: The requests are authenticated by the key-auth plugin. Capitalization: For titles of a section, capitalize the first letter of each word except for the such as determiners, pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. Use the following for guidance. Recommended: Authentication with APISIX For normal sentences, don't random words in the middle of the sentences. Use the Chicago manual for capitalization rules for the documentation. Second Person In general, use second person in your docs rather than first person. For example: Recommended: You are recommended to use the docker based deployment. Not Recommended: We recommend to use the docker based deployment. Spellings Use when contributing to the documentation. Voice Use a friendly and conversational tone. Always use simple sentences. If the sentence is lengthy try to break it in to smaller sentences. code style Please take a look at . Use tool to check your code statically by command: `make lint`. ```shell $ luarocks install luacheck $ make lint ./utils/check-lua-code-style.sh luacheck -q apisix t/lib Total: 0 warnings / 0 errors in 146 files find apisix -name *.lua ! -wholename apisix/cli/ngx_tpl.lua -exec ./utils/lj-releng {} + grep -E ERROR.*.lua: /tmp/check.log true [ -s /tmp/error.log ] ./utils/check-test-code-style.sh find t -name '*.t' -exec grep -E '\-\-\-\s+(SKIP|ONLY|LAST|FIRST)$' '{}' + true '[' -s /tmp/error.log ']' find t -name '*.t' -exec ./utils/reindex '{}' + grep done. /tmp/check.log true '[' -s /tmp/error.log ']' ``` The `lj-releng` and `reindex` will be downloaded automatically by `make lint` if not exists. test case style Use tool to check your test case style statically by command, eg: `make lint`. When the test file is too large, for example > 800 lines, you should split it to a new file. Please take a look at `t/plugin/limit-conn.t` and `t/plugin/limit-conn2.t`. For more details, see the If you have contributed to Apache APISIX, no matter it is a code contribution to fix a bug or a feature request, or a documentation change, Congratulations! You are eligible to receive the APISIX special gifts with a digital certificate! It's always been the community effort that has made Apache APISIX be understood and used by more developers. Contributors can request gifts by filling out this or . After filling in the form, please wait patiently. The community needs some time to review submissions. QQ Group: 781365357(recommended), 578997126, 552030619 Join in `apisix` channel at . If the link is not working, find the latest one at .