skytable/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contribution guidelines

Firstly, thank you for your interest in contributing to this project! This project is powered by the community and relies on hackers across the globe to report bugs, send suggestions and contribute code to move this project forward.

You can see a list of contributors here

Ways to contribute

• #1: Report bugs
• #2: Give us ideas
• #3: Send patches

Coding guidelines

Special comments

• FIXME(@<username>) : Use this when you have made an implementation that can be improved in the future, such as improved efficiency
• HACK(@<username>) : Use this when the code you are using a temporary workaround
• TODO(@<username>) : Use this when you have kept something incomplete
• UNSAFE(@<username>) : Use this to explain why the unsafe block used is safe

Comment style

We prefer to use a 'mixed' commenting style: a cross between the C and C++ styles. Generally, if a comment can be explained in one-line, then follow the C++ commenting style. In other cases, use the C style.

Formatting

• All Rust code should be formatted using rustfmt

Parts of the project

• ci , .github : CI scripts (which, under normal circumstances, don't need to be modified)
• cli : Source for skysh which is the command-line client for Skytable
• examples : Example configuration files
• libsky : This contains functions, structs, ... used by both the cli and the
• server : Source for the main database server ``
• sky-bench : The source for the benchmarking tool resides here
• sky-macros : The source for custom compiler macros used by Skytable

Jargon

Each project has its own jargon — and so do we!

• actiondoc and actions docs : This refers to the actiondoc.yml file, which is used by the Skytable documentation website for automatically building documentation for the actions

Branches

The next branch is the kind of stable branch which contains the latest changes. However, for most purposes, you should always download sources from the tags.

Pushes are made directly to next if they don't change things significantly; for example, changes in documentation comments and general optimizations. If however the changes are huge, then they must be created on a separate branch, a pull request opened, the CI suite run and finally merged into next.

Pull request guidelines

Typo correction or doc updates

The creation of superflous merge requests is generally discouraged. Such examples include the creation of multiple PRs to correct single typos, update comments or update docs.

It would be far better if you could fix a considerable subset (if not all) of these issues in one pull request (it's fine to create multiple commits in the same PR). This is because we don't want to utilize compute capacity or multiply our git history for changes that do not have any behavioral impact. It is recommended that you open up a single PR and correct a substantial subset of these inconsistencies (if not all), while also adding [skip ci] or [ci skip] in your commit messages to avoid triggering the workflows.

Steps

1. Fork the repository
2. Make your changes and start a pull request
3. Sign the CLA (if you haven't signed it already)
4. One of the maintainers will review your patch and suggest changes if required
5. Once your patch is approved, it will be merged into the respective branch
6. Done, you're now one of the contributors!

Development environment setup

Skytable uses a Makefile for builds and running the test suite along with a number of tools. To set these up:

1. Install the latest Rust toolchain (stable)
2. Install a C Compiler, Make, Perl and the libssl-dev package on platforms where they are required

Building

1. For debug (unoptimized) builds:

   make build
   

2. For release (optimized) builds:

   make release
   

TIP: You can explicitly specify a target triple by setting a TARGET environment variable

Testing

Testing is simple: just run this:

make test

NOTE: Make sure port 2003 and 2004 are not used by any applications. Also, make sure your own instance isn't running on any of these ports; if that is the case, you might end up losing data due to conflicting entity names! The test suite creates a testsuite keyspace and some tables within it to run all the tests.