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Contributing to Compose
Compose is a part of the Docker project, and follows the same rules and principles. Take a read of Docker's contributing guidelines to get an overview.
TL;DR
Pull requests will need:
- Tests
- Documentation
- To be signed off
- A logical series of well written commits
Development environment
If you're looking contribute to Compose but you're new to the project or maybe even to Python, here are the steps that should get you started.
- Fork https://github.com/docker/compose to your username.
- Clone your forked repository locally
git clone git@github.com:yourusername/compose.git
. - You must configure a remote for your fork so that you can sync changes you make with the original repository.
- Enter the local directory
cd compose
. - Set up a development environment by running
python setup.py develop
. This will install the dependencies and set up a symlink from yourdocker-compose
executable to the checkout of the repository. When you now rundocker-compose
from anywhere on your machine, it will run your development version of Compose.
Submitting a pull request
See Docker's basic contribution workflow for a guide on how to submit a pull request for code or documentation.
Running the test suite
Use the test script to run linting checks and then the full test suite against different Python interpreters:
$ script/test
Tests are run against a Docker daemon inside a container, so that we can test
against multiple Docker versions. By default they'll run against only the latest
Docker version - set the DOCKER_VERSIONS
environment variable to "all" to run
against all supported versions:
$ DOCKER_VERSIONS=all script/test
Arguments to script/test
are passed through to the nosetests
executable, so
you can specify a test directory, file, module, class or method:
$ script/test tests/unit
$ script/test tests/unit/cli_test.py
$ script/test tests.integration.service_test
$ script/test tests.integration.service_test:ServiceTest.test_containers
Finding things to work on
We use a ZenHub board to keep track of specific things we are working on and planning to work on. If you're looking for things to work on, stuff in the backlog is a great place to start.
For more information about our project planning, take a look at our GitHub wiki.