Contributing to Kube-router

Summary

This document covers how to contribute to the kube-router project. Kube-router uses github PRs to manage contributions (could be anything from documentation, bug fixes, manifests etc.).

Please read users guide and developers guide for the functionality and internals of kube-router.

Filing issues

If you have a question about Kube-router or have a problem using it, please start with contacting us on community forum for quick help. If that doesn't answer your questions, or if you think you found a bug, please file an issue.

Contributing Changes

Fork the code

Navigate to: https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router and fork the repository.

Follow these steps to setup a local repository for working on Kube-router:

$ git clone https://github.com/YOUR_ACCOUNT/kube-router.git
$ cd kube-router
$ git remote add upstream https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-router
$ git checkout master
$ git fetch upstream
$ git rebase upstream/master

Creating A Feature Branch

Create a new branch to make changes on and that branch.

$ git checkout -b feature_x
   (make your changes)
$ git status
$ git add .
$ git commit -a -m "descriptive commit message for your changes"

get update from upstream

$ git checkout master
$ git fetch upstream
$ git rebase upstream/master
$ git checkout feature_x
$ git rebase master

Now your feature_x branch is up-to-date with all the code in upstream/master, so push to your fork

Performing A Pull Request

$ git push origin master
$ git push origin feature_x

Now that the feature_x branch has been pushed to your GitHub repository, you can initiate the pull request.