github.com/sinangedik/terraform@v0.3.5/CONTRIBUTING.md (about) 1 # Contributing to Terraform 2 3 **First:** if you're unsure or afraid of _anything_, just ask 4 or submit the issue or pull request anyways. You won't be yelled at for 5 giving your best effort. The worst that can happen is that you'll be 6 politely asked to change something. We appreciate any sort of contributions, 7 and don't want a wall of rules to get in the way of that. 8 9 However, for those individuals who want a bit more guidance on the 10 best way to contribute to the project, read on. This document will cover 11 what we're looking for. By addressing all the points we're looking for, 12 it raises the chances we can quickly merge or address your contributions. 13 14 ## Issues 15 16 ### Reporting an Issue 17 18 * Make sure you test against the latest released version. It is possible 19 we already fixed the bug you're experiencing. 20 21 * Provide steps to reproduce the issue, along with your `.tf` files, 22 with secrets removed, so we can try to reproduce it. Without this, 23 it makes it much harder to fix the issue. 24 25 * If you experienced a panic, please create a [gist](https://gist.github.com) 26 of the *entire* generated crash log for us to look at. Double check 27 no sensitive items were in the log. 28 29 * Respond as promptly as possible to any questions made by the Terraform 30 team to your issue. Stale issues will be closed. 31 32 ### Issue Lifecycle 33 34 1. The issue is reported. 35 36 2. The issue is verified and categorized by a Terraform collaborator. 37 Categorization is done via tags. For example, bugs are marked as "bugs". 38 39 3. Unless it is critical, the issue is left for a period of time (sometimes 40 many weeks), giving outside contributors a chance to address the issue. 41 42 4. The issue is addressed in a pull request or commit. The issue will be 43 referenced in the commit message so that the code that fixes it is clearly 44 linked. 45 46 5. The issue is closed. Sometimes, valid issues will be closed to keep 47 the issue tracker clean. The issue is still indexed and available for 48 future viewers, or can be re-opened if necessary. 49 50 ## Setting up Go to work on Terraform 51 52 If you have never worked with Go before, you will have to complete the 53 following steps in order to be able to compile and test Terraform (or 54 use the Vagrantfile in this repo to stand up a dev VM). 55 56 1. Install Go. Make sure the Go version is at least Go 1.2. Terraform will not work with anything less than 57 Go 1.2. On a Mac, you can `brew install go` to install Go 1.2. 58 59 2. Set and export the `GOPATH` environment variable and update your `PATH`. 60 For example, you can add to your `.bash_profile`. 61 62 ``` 63 export GOPATH=$HOME/Documents/golang 64 export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin 65 ``` 66 67 3. [Follow the development guide](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform#developing-terraform) 68 69 5. Make your changes to the Terraform source, being sure to run the basic 70 tests. 71 72 7. If everything works well and the tests pass, run `go fmt` on your code 73 before submitting a pull request.