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Contributing to InSpec

We are glad you want to contribute to InSpec!

We utilize Github Issues for issue tracking and contributions. You can contribute in two ways:

  1. Reporting an issue or making a feature request here.
  2. Adding features or fixing bugs yourself and contributing your code to InSpec.

Contribution Process

We have a 3 step process that utilizes Github Issues:

  1. Sign or be added to an existing Contributor License Agreement (CLA).
  2. Create a Github Pull Request.
  3. Do Code Review with the InSpec Team on the pull request.

Chef Pull Requests

We strive to ensure high quality throughout the InSpec experience. In order to ensure this, we require a couple of things for all pull requests to InSpec:

  1. Tests: To ensure high quality code and protect against future regressions, we require all the code in InSpec to have at least unit test coverage. See the test/unit directory for the existing tests and use bundle exec rake test to run them.
  2. Green Travis Run: We use Travis CI in order to run our tests continuously on all the pull requests. We require the Travis runs to succeed on every pull request before being merged.
  3. Up-to-date Documentation: Every code change should be reflected in an update for our documentation. We expect PRs to update the documentation with the code change.

In addition to this it would be nice to include the description of the problem you are solving with your change. You can use Chef Issue Template in the description section of the pull request.

Chef Code Review Process

The Chef Code Review process happens on Github pull requests. See this article if you're not familiar with Github Pull Requests.

Once you a pull request, the InSpec Team will review your code and respond to you with any feedback they might have. The process at this point is as follows:

  1. thumbs-ups are required from the InSpec Team for all merges.
  2. When ready, your pull request will be merged into master, we may require you to rebase your PR to the latest master.
  3. Once the PR is merged, you will be included in CHANGELOG.md.

Contributor License Agreement (CLA)

Licensing is very important to open source projects. It helps ensure the software continues to be available under the terms that the author desired.

Chef uses the Apache 2.0 license to strike a balance between open contribution and allowing you to use the software however you would like to.

The license tells you what rights you have that are provided by the copyright holder. It is important that the contributor fully understands what rights they are licensing and agrees to them. Sometimes the copyright holder isn't the contributor, such as when the contributor is doing work for a company.

To make a good faith effort to ensure these criteria are met, Chef requires an Individual CLA or a Corporate CLA for contributions. This agreement helps ensure you are aware of the terms of the license you are contributing your copyrighted works under, which helps to prevent the inclusion of works in the projects that the contributor does not hold the rights to share.

It only takes a few minutes to complete a CLA, and you retain the copyright to your contribution.

You can complete our Individual CLA online. If you're contributing on behalf of your employer and they retain the copyright for your works, have your employer fill out our Corporate CLA instead.