ansible-collection-prometheus/CONTRIBUTING.md

# Contributor Guideline

This document provides an overview of how you can participate in improving this project or extending it. We are
grateful for all your help: bug reports and fixes, code contributions, documentation or ideas. Feel free to join, we 
appreciate your support!!

## Communication

### GitHub repositories

Much of the issues, goals and ideas are tracked in the respective projects in GitHub. Please use this channel to report
bugs, ask questions, and request new features .

## git and GitHub

In order to contribute code please:

1. Fork the project on GitHub
2. Clone the project
3. Add changes (and tests)
4. Commit and push
5. Create a merge-request

To have your code merged, see the expectations listed below.

You can find a well-written guide [here](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo).

Please follow conventional commits for best-practices. Be explicit, have a short summary, a well-written description and
references. This is especially important for the merge-request.

Some great guidelines can be found [here](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/).

## Releases

We try to stick to semantic versioning and our releases are automated. Release is created by assigning [conventional commits](https://www.conventionalcommits.org/)
to PR title. Available keywords are:
 
* `[patch]`, `[fix]`, `[bug]`, `[bugfix]`, `[test]`, `[refactor]`, `[packaging]`, `[docs]` - for PATCH version release
* `[minor]`, `[enhancement]`, `[feature]`, `[feat]`, `[deprecated]`, `[removed]`, `[security]` - for MINOR version release
* `[major]`, `[breaking]` - for MAJOR version release
 
## Changelog
This project uses [antsibull-changelog](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_collections_changelogs.html#generating-changelogs) to generate changelogs.

Changelog is generated automatically during release process and all information is taken from github PRs, commits and labels.

## Expectations

### Keep it simple

We try to provide production ready ansible roles which should be as much zero-conf as possible but this doesn't mean to
overcomplicate things. Just follow [KISS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle).

### Be explicit

* Please avoid using nonsensical property and variable names.
* Use self-describing attribute names for user configuration.
* In case of failures, communicate what happened and why a failure occurs to the user. Make it easy to track the code
or action that produced the error. Try to catch and handle errors if possible to provide improved failure messages.


### Add tests

We are striving to use at least two test scenarios located in [/molecule](molecule) directory. First one
([default](molecule/default)) is testing default configuration without any additional variables, second one 
([alternative](molecule/alternative)) is testing what happens when many variables from 
[/defaults/main.yml](defaults/main.yml) are changed. When adding new functionalities please add tests to proper
scenarios. Tests are written in testinfra framework and are located in `/tests` subdirectory of scenario directory
(for example default tests are in [/molecule/default/tests](molecule/default/tests)).
More information about:
  - [testinfra](http://testinfra.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)
  - [molecule](https://molecule.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html)

### Follow best practices

Please follow [ansible best practices](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/playbooks_best_practices.html) and
especially provide meaningful names to tasks and even comments where needed.

Our test framework automatically lints code with [`yamllint`](https://github.com/adrienverge/yamllint),
[`ansible-lint`](https://github.com/willthames/ansible-lint), and [`flake8`](https://gitlab.com/pycqa/flake8) programs
so be sure to follow their rules.

Remember: Code is generally read much more often than written.

### Use Markdown

Wherever possible, please refrain from any other formats and stick to simple markdown.

## Requirements regarding roles design 

We are trying to create the best and most secure installation method for non-containerized prometheus stack components.
To accomplish this all roles need to support:

- current and at least one previous ansible version
- systemd as the only available process manager
- at least latest debian and CentOS distributions