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

Please do check our before making contributions. - - - - - - We take security issues seriously and discourage anyone to spread security issues. If you find a security issue in KubeGateway, please do not discuss it in public and even do not open a public issue. Instead we encourage you to send us a private email to kubewharf.conduct@bytedance.com to report the security issue. Any user is welcome be a contributor. If you have any feedback for the project, feel free to open an issue. Since KubeGateway development will be collaborated in a distributed manner, we appreciate WELL-WRITTEN, DETAILED, EXPLICIT issue reports. To make communication more efficient, we suggest everyone to search if your issue is an existing one before filing a new issue. If you find it to be existing, please append your details in the issue comments. There are lot of cases for which you could open an issue: Bug report Feature request Performance issues Feature proposal Feature design Help wanted Doc incomplete Test improvement Any questions about the project, and so on Please remind that when filing a new issue, do remove the sensitive data from your post. Sensitive data could be password, secret key, network locations, private business data and so on. Any action that may make KubeGateway better is encouraged. The action can be realized via a PR (short for pull request). If you find a typo, try to fix it! If you find a bug, try to fix it! If you find some redundant codes, try to remove them! If you find some test cases missing, try to add them! If you could enhance a feature, please DO NOT* hesitate! If you find code implicit, try to add comments to make it clear! If you find tech debts, try to refactor them! If you find document incorrect, please fix that! It is impossible to list them completely, we are looking forward to your pull requests. Before submitting a PR, we suggest you could take a look at the PR rules

We assume you have a GitHub ID already, then you could finish the preparation in the following steps: FORK KubeGateway to your repository. To make this work, you just need to click the button `Fork` in top-right corner of main page. Then you will end up with your repository in `https://github.com/<username>/kubegateway`, in which `username` is your GitHub ID. CLONE your own repository to develop locally. Use `git clone https://github.com/<username>/kubegateway.git` to clone repository to your local machine. Then you can create new branches to finish the change you wish to make. Set Remote upstream to be kube-gateway using the following two commands: ``` git remote add upstream https://github.com/kubewharf/kubegateway.git git remote set-url --push upstream no-pushing ``` With this remote setting, you can check your git remote configuration like this: ``` $ git remote -v origin https://github.com/<username>/kubegateway.git (fetch) origin https://github.com/<username>/kubegateway.git (push) upstream https://github.com/kubewharf/kubegateway.git (fetch) upstream no-pushing (push) ``` With above, we can easily synchronize local branches with upstream branches. Right now we assume every contribution via pull request is for the `master` branch in KubeGateway. There are several other branches such as rc branches, release branches and backport branches. Before officially releasing a version, we may checkout a rc (release candidate) branch for more testings. When officially releasing a version, there may be a release branch before tagging which will be deleted after tagging. When backporting some fixes to existing released version, we will checkout backport branches. In KubeGateway, we take two rules seriously for submitted PRs: TODO TODO PR is the only way to make change to KubeGateway project. To help reviewers, we actually encourage contributors to make PR description as detailed as possible. GitHub is the primary place for KubeGateway contributors to collaborate. Although contributions via PR is an explicit way to help, we still call for any other types of helps. Reply to other's issues if you could; Help solve other user's problems; Help review other's PR design; Help review other's codes in PR; Discuss about KubeGateway to make things clearer; Advocate KubeGateway technology beyond GitHub; Write blogs on KubeGateway, and so on. In a word, ANY HELP CAN BE A CONTRIBUTION.