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Contributing to Rust IPFS
Welcome, and thank you for your interest in contributing to Rust IPFS. Issues and pull requests are encouraged. You can make a difference by tackling any of the following items:
- Bug reports and feature requests in the form of issues
- Implementing the remaining features and corresponding HTTP endpoints not yet covered. See https://areweipfsyet.rs for info on which those are.
- Additional tests (unit, functional, conformance) and CI for existing functionality
- Examples, particularly those that showcase Rust's unique capaibilities or performance
- Any advancements toward
no_std
support - PRs for issues marked as help wanted or good first issue
- Other issues that are not marked as help wanted or good first issue ;)
- Documentation
- Benchmarks
First Principles
Following these principles in your PRs will greatly increase your chances of a successful merge:
- Keep the patch size minimal
- Aim for high (but not absolute) code coverage in testing
By keeping the patch size minimal we hope to avoid difficult to review situations where there are lot of lines changed with only a few necessary changes. If you wish to submit a pull request for reorganizing something, please keep all unnecessary changes out.
For example, if you wanted to change the wording of this CONTRIBUTING.md file and dislike the fact that there is no static word wrap used, please push two separate pull requests to first change the wording, and finally to reformat the file.
Target Build
Rust IPFS will always target the current stable version of Rust that is released. Our CI/CD tests will reflect this. See instructions here on how to install the rust toolchain.
Compilation is slow, help!
We are still actively developing Rust IPFS, and as such compilation + linking times will vary and in many cases, worsen. This can be mitigated locally by installing the lld
linker using your system's package manager.
For example, on Debian systems:
sudo apt install lld
Then in your ~/.cargo/config
file:
[build]
rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]
Including this in the project root would cause the compiler to error out on systems that don't have lld
installed, so we have not checked this into source yet.
Contributing
We welcome all forms of contribution. Please open issues and PRs for:
- Reporting Bugs
- Suggesting Enhancements
- Adding new tests
- Adding new functionality
- Documentation-only updates
Style
- Please separate stylistic things into separate PRs than functional changes
- Git Commit Messages should lean towards Conventional Commits but will not be enforced
- Rust code should conform to
rustfmt
andclippy
before push, as the CI will catch errors there
Security
If you have discovered a security vulnerability, please open an issue. We'd like to handle things as transparently as possible. If you don't feel like this is prudent, please visit us on one of the chat channels via the badges in the README. One of the core contributors will be able to talk to you about the disclosure.