Rancher Desktop accepts contributions via GitHub pull requests. This document outlines the process to get your pull request accepted.
Prior to creating a pull request it is a good idea to create an issue. This is especially true if the change request is something large. The bug, feature request, or other type of issue can be discussed prior to creating the pull request. This can reduce rework.
A sign-off is a line at the end of the explanation for a commit. All commits must be signed. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise have the right to contribute the material. When you sign off you agree to the following rules (from developercertificate.org):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
Then you add a line to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions).
If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your
commit automatically with git commit -s.
Note: If your git config information is set properly then viewing the git log
information for your commit will look something like this:
Author: John Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 2 11:41:15 2018 -0800
Update README
Signed-off-by: John Smith <[email protected]>
Notice the Author and Signed-off-by lines match. If they don't your PR will
be rejected by the automated DCO check.
Pull requests for a code change should reference the issue they are related to. This will enable issues to serve as a central point of reference for a change. For example, if a pull request fixes or completes an issue the commit or pull request should include:
Closes #123In this case 123 is the corresponding issue number.
Every pull request triggers a full run of testing in the CI system.
The failures reported by the code style checker (aka the "linter") and the unit tests are usually
clear and easy to fix (and can be avoided by running yarn test locally before creating a commit).
But when an integration, or e2e test, fails, it's sometimes useful to consult the log files
for the run.
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Click on the Details link next to the failing E2E test notification, and navigate to the summary view of the test.
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From the bottom of the summary view, locate the
failure-reports.ziplink and download it. (You must be logged in to GitHub to be able to download that file.)
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Extract that file to find the logs; they are in directories named after each test. For example, a subset of the log files may include:
$ ls -l total 62204 drwxr-xr-x 29 nobody nobody 928 Oct 12 2020 backend.e2e.spec.ts-logs -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 31616936 Oct 12 2020 backend.e2e.spec.ts-pw-trace.zip $ ls backend.e2e.spec.ts-logs/ background.log k8s.log networking.log commandLine.log kube.log protocol-handler.log dashboardServer.log lima.ha.stderr.log server.log deploymentProfile.log lima.ha.stdout.log settings.log diagnostics.log lima.log shortcuts.log extensions.log lima.serial.log steve.log images.log moby.log update.log integrations.log mock.log window_browser.log k3s.log nerdctl.log wsl.log -
It may be useful to go to https://trace.playwright.dev/ to examine the Playwright traces; they are the files named
*-pw-trace.zip. This can be useful for seeing the state of the UI when waiting for elements to appear, disappear, etc.
Rancher Desktop follows semantic versioning.
This does not cover Kubernetes or other tools provided by Rancher Desktop. Kubernetes has its own release versioning scheme that looks like SemVer but is semantically different.