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Contributing

Thank you for considering making contributions to Gaia and related repositories!

Contributing to this repo can mean many things such as participated in discussion or proposing code changes. To ensure a smooth workflow for all contributors, the general procedure for contributing has been established:

  1. either open or find an issue you'd like to help with,
  2. participate in thoughtful discussion on that issue,
  3. if you would then like to contribute code:
    1. if a the issue is a proposal, ensure that the proposal has been accepted,
    2. ensure that nobody else has already begun working on this issue, if they have make sure to contact them to collaborate,
    3. if nobody has been assigned the issue and you would like to work on it make a comment on the issue to inform the community of your intentions to begin work,
    4. follow standard github best practices: fork the repo, branch from the top of master, make some commits, and submit a PR to master,
      • for core developers working within the Gaia repo, to ensure a clear ownership of branches, branches must be named with the convention yourname/{issue-}feature-name.
    5. submit your PR early and make sure it's opened as a Draft, even if it's incomplete, this indicates to the community you're working on something and allows them to provide comments early in the development process. When the code is complete it should be marked as ready-for-review using Github's Mark Ready feature.

Note that for very small or blatantly obvious problems (such as typos) it is not required to an open issue to submit a PR, but be aware that for more complex problems/features, if a PR is opened before an adequate design discussion has taken place in a github issue, that PR runs a high likelihood of being rejected.

Take a peek at our coding repo for overall information on repository workflow and standards. Note, we use make tools for installing the linting tools.

Other notes:

  • Looking for a good place to start contributing? How about checking out some good first issues
  • Please make sure to use gofmt before every commit - the easiest way to do this is have your editor run it for you upon saving a file. Additionally please ensure that your code is lint compliant by running make lint

Pull Requests

To accommodate review process we suggest that PRs are categorically broken up. Ideally each PR addresses only a single issue. Additionally, as much as possible code refactoring and cleanup should be submitted as a separate PRs from bugfixes/feature-additions.

Process for reviewing PRs

All PRs require two Reviews before merge (except docs changes, or variable name-changes which only require one). When reviewing PRs please use the following review explanations:

  • LGTM without an explicit approval means that the changes look good, but you haven't pulled down the code, run tests locally and thoroughly reviewed it.
  • Approval through the GH UI means that you understand the code, documentation/spec is updated in the right places, you have pulled down and tested the code locally. In addition:
    • You must also think through anything which ought to be included but is not
    • You must think through whether any added code could be partially combined (DRYed) with existing code
    • You must think through any potential security issues or incentive-compatibility flaws introduced by the changes
    • Naming must be consistent with conventions and the rest of the codebase
    • Code must live in a reasonable location, considering dependency structures (e.g. not importing testing modules in production code, or including example code modules in production code).
    • if you approve of the PR, you are responsible for fixing any of the issues mentioned here and more
  • If you sat down with the PR submitter and did a pairing review please note that in the Approval, or your PR comments.
  • If you are only making "surface level" reviews, submit any notes as Comments without adding a review.

Updating Documentation

If you open a PR in Gaia, it is mandatory to update the relevant documentation in /docs.

  • If your changes relate specifically to the gaia application, please modify the docs/ folder.

Forking

Please note that Go requires code to live under absolute paths, which complicates forking. While my fork lives at https://github.com/rigeyrigerige/gaia, the code should never exist at $GOPATH/src/github.com/rigeyrigerige/gaia. Instead, we use git remote to add the fork as a new remote for the original repo, $GOPATH/src/github.com/tichex-project/go-tichex , and do all the work there.

For instance, to create a fork and work on a branch of it, I would:

  • Create the fork on github, using the fork button.
  • Go to the original repo checked out locally (i.e. $GOPATH/src/github.com/tichex-project/go-tichex)
  • git remote rename origin upstream
  • git remote add origin git@github.com:rigeyrigerige/gaia.git

Now origin refers to my fork and upstream refers to the Gaia version. So I can git push -u origin master to update my fork, and make pull requests to Gaia from there. Of course, replace rigeyrigerige with your git handle.

To pull in updates from the origin repo, run

  • git fetch upstream
  • git rebase upstream/master (or whatever branch you want)

Please don't make Pull Requests to master.

Dependencies

We use Go 1.11 Modules to manage dependency versions.

The master branch of every Cosmos repository should just build with go get, which means they should be kept up-to-date with their dependencies so we can get away with telling people they can just go get our software.

Since some dependencies are not under our control, a third party may break our build, in which case we can fall back on go mod tidy -v.

Testing

All repos should be hooked up to CircleCI.

If they have .go files in the root directory, they will be automatically tested by circle using go test -v -race ./.... If not, they will need a circle.yml. Ideally, every repo has a Makefile that defines make test and includes its continuous integration status using a badge in the README.md.

We expect tests to use require or assert rather than t.Skip or t.Fail, unless there is a reason to do otherwise. When testing a function under a variety of different inputs, we prefer to use table driven tests. Table driven test error messages should follow the following format <desc>, tc #<index>, i #<index>. <desc> is an optional short description of whats failing, tc is the index within the table of the testcase that is failing, and i is when there is a loop, exactly which iteration of the loop failed. The idea is you should be able to see the error message and figure out exactly what failed. Here is an example check:

<some table>
for tcIndex, tc := range cases {
  <some code>
  for i := 0; i < tc.numTxsToTest; i++ {
      <some code>
			require.Equal(t, expectedTx[:32], calculatedTx[:32],
				"First 32 bytes of the txs differed. tc #%d, i #%d", tcIndex, i)

Branching Model and Release

User-facing repos should adhere to the trunk based development branching model: https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/.

Libraries need not follow the model strictly, but would be wise to.

Gaia utilizes semantic versioning.

PR Targeting

Ensure that you base and target your PR on the master branch.

All feature additions should be targeted against master. Bug fixes for an outstanding release candidate should be targeted against the release candidate branch. Release candidate branches themselves should be the only pull requests targeted directly against master.

Development Procedure

  • the latest state of development is on master
  • master must never fail make test or make test_cli
  • master should not fail make lint
  • no --force onto master (except when reverting a broken commit, which should seldom happen)
  • create a development branch either on github.com/tichex-project/go-tichex, or your fork (using git remote add origin)
  • before submitting a pull request, begin git rebase on top of master

Pull Merge Procedure

  • ensure pull branch is rebased on master
  • run make test and make test_cli to ensure that all tests pass
  • merge pull request

Release Procedure

  • start on master
  • create the release candidate branch rc/v* (going forward known as RC) and ensure it's protected against pushing from anyone except the release manager/coordinator. no PRs targeting this branch should be merged unless exceptional circumstances arise
  • on the RC branch, use clog to prepare the CHANGELOG.md and kick off a large round of simulation testing (e.g. 400 seeds for 2k blocks).
  • if errors are found during the simulation testing, commit the fixes to master and create a new RC branch (making sure to increment the rcN)
  • after simulation has successfully completed, create the release branch (release/vX.XX.X) from the RC branch
  • merge the release branch to master to incorporate the CHANGELOG.md updates
  • delete the RC branches

Point Release Procedure

At the moment, only a single major release will be supported, so all point releases will be based off of that release.

  • start on vX.XX.X
  • checkout a new branch pre-rc/vX.X.X
  • cherry pick the desired changes from master
    • these changes should be small and NON-BREAKING (both API and state machine)
  • add entries to CHANGELOG.md and remove corresponding pending log entries
  • checkout a new branch rc/vX.X.X based off of vX.XX.X
  • create a PR merging pre-rc/vX.X.X into rc/vX.X.X
  • run tests and simulations (noted in Release Procedure)
  • after tests and simulation have successfully completed, create the release branch release/vX.XX.X from the RC branch
  • delete the pre-rc/vX.X.X and RC branches
  • create a PR into master containing ONLY the CHANGELOG.md updates
  • tag and release release/vX.XX.X