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Contributing

Icinga is an open source project and lives from your ideas and contributions.

There are many ways to contribute, from improving the documentation, submitting bug reports and features requests or writing code to add enhancements or fix bugs.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Fork the Project
  3. Branches
  4. Commits
  5. Pull Requests
  6. Testing
  7. Source Code Patches
  8. Documentation Patches

Introduction

Please consider our roadmap and open issues when you start contributing to the project.

Before starting your work on Icinga DB Web, you should fork the project to your GitHub account. This allows you to freely experiment with your changes. When your changes are complete, submit a pull request. All pull requests will be reviewed and merged if they suit some general guidelines:

  • Changes are located in a topic branch
  • For new functionality, proper tests are written
  • Changes should follow the existing coding style and standards

Please continue reading in the following sections for a step by step guide.

Fork the Project

Fork the project to your GitHub account and clone the repository:

git clone [email protected]:jdoe/icingadb-web.git
cd icingadb-web

Add a new remote upstream with this repository as value.

git remote add upstream https://github.com/icinga/icingadb-web.git

You can pull updates to your fork's default branch:

git fetch --all
git pull upstream HEAD

Please continue to learn about branches.

Branches

Choosing a proper name for a branch helps us identify its purpose and possibly find an associated bug or feature. Generally a branch name should include a topic such as fix or feature followed by a description and an issue number if applicable. Branches should have only changes relevant to a specific issue.

git checkout -b fix/service-template-typo-1234
git checkout -b feature/config-handling-1235

Continue to apply your changes and test them. More details on specific changes:

Commits

Once you've finished your work in a branch, please ensure to commit your changes. A good commit message includes a short topic, additional body and a reference to the issue you wish to solve (if existing).

Fixes:

Fix missing style in detail view

refs #4567

Features:

Add DateTime picker

refs #1234

You can add multiple commits during your journey to finish your patch. Don't worry, you can squash those changes into a single commit later on.

Pull Requests

Once you've committed your changes, please update your local default branch and rebase your fix/feature branch against it before submitting a PR.

git checkout main
git pull upstream HEAD

git checkout fix/style-detail-view-5678
git rebase main

Once you've resolved any conflicts, push the branch to your remote repository. It might be necessary to force push after rebasing - use with care!

New branch:

git push --set-upstream origin fix/style-detail-view-5678

Existing branch:

git push -f origin fix/style-detail-view-5678

You can now either use the hub CLI tool to create a PR, or navigate to your GitHub repository and create a PR there.

The pull request should again contain a telling subject and a reference with fixes to an existing issue id if any. That allows developers to automatically resolve the issues once your PR gets merged.

hub pull-request

<a telling subject>

fixes #1234

Thanks a lot for your contribution!

Rebase a Branch

If you accidentally sent in a PR which was not rebased against the upstream default branch, developers might ask you to rebase your PR.

First off, fetch and pull the default branch.

git checkout main
git fetch --all
git pull upstream HEAD

Then change to your working branch and start rebasing it against the default:

git checkout fix/style-detail-view-5678
git rebase main

If you are running into a conflict, rebase will stop and ask you to fix the problems.

git status

  both modified: path/to/conflict.php

Edit the file and search for >>>. Fix, build, test and save as needed.

Add the modified file(s) and continue rebasing.

git add path/to/conflict.php
git rebase --continue

Once succeeded ensure to push your changed history remotely.

git push -f origin fix/style-detail-view-5678

If you fear to break things, do the rebase in a backup branch first and later replace your current branch.

git checkout fix/style-detail-view-5678
git checkout -b fix/style-detail-view-5678-rebase

git rebase main

git branch -D fix/style-detail-view-5678
git checkout -b fix/style-detail-view-5678

git push -f origin fix/style-detail-view-5678

Squash Commits

Note:

Be careful with squashing. This might lead to non-recoverable mistakes.

This is for advanced Git users.

Say you want to squash the last 3 commits in your branch into a single one.

Start an interactive (-i) rebase from current HEAD minus three commits (HEAD~3).

git rebase -i HEAD~3

Git opens your preferred editor. pick the commit in the first line, change pick to squash on the other lines.

pick e4bf04e47 Fix style detail view
squash d7b939d99 Tests
squash b37fd5377 Doc updates

Save and let rebase to its job. Then force push the changes to the remote origin.

git push -f origin fix/style-detail-view-5678

Testing

TBD

Source Code Patches

Icinga DB Web is written in PHP, LESS and JavaScript.

Documentation Patches

The documentation is written in GitHub flavored Markdown. It is located in the doc/ directory and can be edited with your preferred editor. You can also edit it online on GitHub.

vim doc/02-Installation.md