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How to contribute

If you'd like to help us improve and extend phabricator-tools, then we welcome your contributions!

Below you will find some basic steps required to be able to contribute to phabricator-tools. If you have any questions about this process or any other aspect of contributing to a Bloomberg open source project, feel free to send an email to [email protected] and we'll get your questions answered as quickly as we can.

Contribution Licensing

Since phabricator-tools is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0, contributions that you make to phabricator-tools are licensed under the same terms. In order for us to be able to accept your contributions, we will need explicit confirmation from you that you are able and willing to provide them under these terms, and the mechanism we use to do this is called a Developer's Certificate of Origin DCO. This is very similar to the process used by the Linux(R) kernel, Samba, and many other major open source projects.

To participate under these terms, all that you must do is include a line like the following as the last line of the commit message for each commit in your contribution:

Signed-Off-By: Random J. Developer <[email protected]>

You must use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms, and no anonymous contributions).

Setting up to develop

  • Run ./meta/install_devtools.sh
  • Install Phabricator locally, either with Vagrant or directly on your linux box, see instructions here
  • Make sure that all the tests pass with ./precommit.sh, these depend on a local installation of Phabricator
  • To exercise arcyd manually, run ./testbed/arcyd/test_shell.sh. This will create a temporary directory and set up a couple of arcyd instances to test with. Use exit to clean up the instances and return to your previous shell.
  • To start playing with arcyon, try looking at the examples
  • There's a README to get you started with the code layout
  • There is some design documentation

Commit etiquette

  • Please ensure that ./precommit.sh passes cleanly on each of your commits
  • Please include a 'Test Plan:' field in each of your commits that documents what you did to ensure that your change is valid. This should include enough detail that it is repeatable by someone else and it's possible for someone to point out things missing or wrong in the plan. e.g. 
    Test Plan:

Exercise old workaround with old version of Phabricator
    $ arcyon task-query --uri http://127.0.0.1  --ids 6
    .. ok ..

Exercise new workaround with new version of Phabricator
    $ arcyon task-query --uri https://secure.phabricator.com  --ids 6144
    .. ok ..

Usual checks just in case
$ ./precommit.sh
  • Please read Tim Pope's good advice on making commit messages
  • Please read PEP8
  • Bonus: the Phabricator project has some excellent documentation on writing reviewable code and revision control