We’re thrilled that you’d like to contribute to the AIMET project! Your support is essential for keeping this project great and for making it better.
- Please read our Code of Conduct and License and ensure that you agree to abide by them.
- For every new feature or bug fix, always start a new issue on https://github.com/quic/aimet/issues.
- To contribute a bug-fix, please follow the steps in the next sections without any further discussion.
- To contribute new features, extensions, utility functions or other significant changes, please describe and discuss the change with us via the GitHub issue that you created above. A pull request (PR) submitted without discussion and agreement with the project maintainers may be subject to rejection, or significant changes may be requested prior to its acceptance.
Please follow the guidelines below to increase the likelihood and speed of your PR acceptance:
- Follow the existing style in the file or folder where possible. We try and adhere to pep8 for Python and Google C++ style guide for C++.
- Add new unit tests or update existing tests to verify the code that you contribute.
- Keep your change as focused as possible. If you want to make multiple independent changes, consider submitting them as separate PRs.
- Write a good commit message.
- Every commit must be signed with the Developer Certificate of Origin (by adding the
-s
option to yourgit commit
command). - Each PR submission will trigger a build, test, code quality check and static analysis processes. Submitters are required to fix all failures and warnings prior to acceptance.
Contributors should develop on their own fork on branches based off of the develop
branch and then pull requests should be made into the upstream develop
branch.
Go to https://github.com/quic/aimet and fork the repo using these instructions.
Follow the Requirements and Setup sections in USAGE.md. Then return to this page.
Sync your fork with the latest from the upstream repository.
Get the aimet code as follows:
git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/aimet.git
cd aimet
Clone the google test repo as follows:
mkdir -p ./ThirdParty/googletest
pushd ./ThirdParty/googletest
git clone https://github.com/google/googletest.git -b release-1.8.0 googletest-release-1.8.0
popd
IMPORTANT: Setup your pre-commit and commit-msg hook using the following way:
cd aimet
ln -s $(realpath -s .githooks/pre-commit) .git/hooks/pre-commit
ln -s $(realpath -s .githooks/commit-msg) .git/hooks/commit-msg
Start a new issue on https://github.com/quic/aimet/issues.
Create a branch for your feature
git checkout -b branch_short_feature_description
Now you may begin development. Once your development is complete, please ensure that the code builds successfully and that all tests pass using the instructions in the next sections.
Follow these steps to build the code
cd aimet
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make -j4
Verify that build artifacts got created here:
ls ./artifacts/
Run unit tests
make test
# OR
ctest
Commit the code and checkpoint it on your branch using the following procedure.
To display the files that you modified or added:
git status
To stage new (untracked) or existing files or folders for commit, do the following for each file or folder name that was added or changed:
git add <file or folder name that was added or changed>
To commit your changes:
git commit -s -m "Commit message"
IMPORTANT: The -s option is required during the commit step (DCO signoff).
To push your branch to the remote:
git push origin branch_short_feature_description
Before merging, it is recommended that you update your branch to the latest on develop using the following steps:
git fetch
git checkout develop
git pull origin develop
git checkout branch_short_feature_description
Rebase your changes:
git rebase develop
Fix any conflicts that may arise. Then complete the rebasing procedure as follows:
git status
# Run the next 2 commands ONLY IF you needed to fix any conflicts.
# Run this for each file that you changed
git add <file or folder name that was added or changed>
git rebase --continue
Re-build the code on your branch and run all tests. Then update your remote branch:
git push origin branch_short_feature_description --force-with-lease
It is recommended that you commit code to your branches often. Prior to pushing the code and submitting PRs, please try to clean up your branch by squashing multiple commits together and amending commit messages as appropriate. See these pages for details:
https://blog.carbonfive.com/2017/08/28/always-squash-and-rebase-your-git-commits
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rewriting-History
When you're ready to submit your code, issue a pull request from the branch on your FORK into the develop branch on the upstream repository using these instructions.
- Go to your forked repo page
https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/aimet
and click "New Pull Request". - Under "compare changes", select the base (destination) repository as
quic/aimet
and the branch asbase:develop
to the left of the arrow. - Under "compare changes", select the head (source) repository as
YOUR_USERNAME/aimet
and the branch asbase:branch_short_feature_description
to the right of the arrow. - Click "Create Pull Request" which will initiate the PR and take you to the PR page.
- In the PR page, click Reviewers on the top left and select one. He/she will receive an email notification.
- In the PR page, click Assignee on the top left and select one. This person can be the reviewer or someone else or even the code submitter.
- Wait for the outcome of the continuous integration (CI) build and test job, and for any review feedback from the project maintainers.