Thank you for your interest in contributing to GitLab Workflow! This guide details how to contribute to this extension in a way that is easy for everyone. These are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a merge request.
This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the Code of Conduct.
By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior by
opening an issue within project
and adding a label Code of Conduct
.
This section guides you through submitting an issue/bug for GitLab Workflow.
Before creating issues, please check list of existing issues to see if issue you want to open is already known or not.
If you are facing issues around configuring Token from your GitLab.com account, see list of already addressed Token related issues. As chances are that problem you're facing already has a solution.
If issue is not found, you can report your issue along with detailed description that includes;
- Version of VS Code, GitLab Workflow and Operating System used.
- Expected behaviour and actual behaviour.
- Steps to reproduce the issue.
GitLab Workflow is currently maintained by handful of developers at GitLab in their free time, so not all features proposed are promised to be developed. Please refer to "What's next?" section of project README to know what we have in the project roadmap. Having said that, we welcome new and interesting ideas that you might have for this extension, so feel free to propose those by opening an issue within project with detailed description that includes;
- How this feature is useful
- Possible approach to implement it (we're open to your ideas)
- Label
feature-proposal
added to the issue
Developing and/or debugging GitLab Workflow works similar to any other VS Code extension. Here's how you can configure development environment to work on the extension.
We're assuming that you already have Visual Studio Code installed along with GitLab Workflow installed and configured, if not, do that first! If already done, proceed ahead.
- Use your GitLab account to fork this project
- Don't know how forking works? Refer to this guide.
- Don't have GitLab account? Create one! It is free and it is awesome!
- Visit your forked project (usually URL is
https://gitlab.com/<your user name>/gitlab-vscode-extension
) and copy SSH or HTTPS URL to clone the project into your system.- Don't know how to clone a project? Refer to this guide.
Once project is cloned, open terminal within the project folder and run following;
yarn install
This command will install all necessary dependencies to run and debug extension in developer mode.
Open VS Code and then open GitLab Workflow project and then you can follow Running and debugging your extension section from VS Code documentation.
For newcomers to the project, you can take a look at issues labelled as Contributions Welcome
as available here.
Steps to opening a merge request to contribute code to GitLab Workflow is similar to any other open source project. You develop in a separate branch of your own fork and the merge request should have a related issue open in the project. Any Merge Request you wish to open in order to contribute to GitLab Workflow, be sure you have followed through the steps from Configuring Development Environment.