To contribute to Cloud Foundry you should follow this process.
These steps only need to be done once.
http://reviews.cloudfoundry.org/
If you don't alrady have a ssh pbulic/private key pair, you need to create one up with:
ssh-keygen -t rsa
Remember to set a passphrase - the world is insecure enough as it is! Use ssh-add if you want non-interactive logins.
Then optionally edit ~/.ssh/config and add
Host reviews.cloudfoundry.org
Port 29418
This lets you skip the port number when referring to the host.
If your local username differs from the remote, you also need to add the line
User menglund
The email address in the commit must be in gerrit.
git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
git config --global user.email "your_email@youremail.com"
You can add multiple email addresses in gerrit if you need to.
Install our gerrit helper Ruby gem
gem install gerrit-cli
The last one-time step is to clone the gerrit repository.
Note! Don't clone the github repository, we don't accept pull requests.
gerrit clone ssh://[<your username>@]reviews.cloudfoundry.org:29418/bosh
Make sure to use this instead of cloning by hand (with git clone) as this installs a pre-commit hook that adds the required Change-Id.
Now you are ready to start working on your change
You don't have to use a branch, but it makes things much easier, so we recommend using one.
git checkout -b agent/needs_foo
If you have a number of changes you want to submit, using one branch per change makes things easier, as gerrit see changes in the same branch as dependent.
Follow the github ruby style guide. We prefer readable over clever!
Run the test suites! Gerrit will do it for you, but it speeds up your development cycle doing it locally before you push the change.
Add your change and your test cases, and commit them.
git add agent/lib/agen/foo.rb agent/spec/unit/foo_spec.rb
git commit
Your commit message should have a first line which contains a description of the change, and then list the details of the change in a paragraph below. Make sure to include how you have tested your change.
Pull down any changes that may have been committed
git pull --rebase
Resolve any conflicts that may occur and finally push the change to gerrit
gerrit push
Once your change passes our Continuous Integration Bot (CI Bot) as well as our engineering staff, you can add reviewers or you can just wait for us to go and look at the change.
If your change is approved by reviewers or commiters, you are free to merge the change. The merge will be replicated to GitHub automatically at http://github.com/cloudfoundry/.
If you get feedback on your submission, we recommend squashing your commit with the original change-id. See the squashing section here for more details: http://help.github.com/rebase/.