CONTRIBUTING.md

Getting Involved

New contributors are always welcome, when it doubt please ask questions. We strive to be an open and welcoming community. Please be nice to one another.

Coding

• Pick a task:
  • Offer feedback on open pull requests.
  • Review open issues for things to help on.
  • Create an issue to start a discussion on additions or features.
• Fork the project, add your changes and tests to cover them in a topic branch.
• Commit your changes and rebase against vrivellino/chef-java_se to ensure everything is up to date.
• Submit a pull request.

Updating Release

• Create branch e.g., git checkout -b 9.0.1
• Update CHANGLOG.md
• Update Java SE JDK version in README.md
• Update build and update version, and checksums in attributes/bind.rb
• Update version in metadata.rb
• Update BUILD and VERSION_UPDATE in spec/spec_helper.rb
• Update VERSION in test/integration/alt_home/serverspec/spec_helper.rb
• Update VERSION in test/integration/default/serverspec/spec_helper.rb
• Push to GitHub to integration test Linux and Windows
• Merge to macosx branch not overriding .travis.yml e.g.,
  • git checkout macosx
  • git merge --no-commit 9.0.1
  • git reset HEAD .travis.yml
  • git checkout -- .travis.yml
  • git commit -m 'merged 9.0.1'
• Push to GitHub to integration test Mac OS X
• Merge to master e.g.,
  • git checkout master
  • git merge 9.0.1
• Push to GitHub
• Cut a Release
• Push to supermarket.chef.io

Non-Coding

• Offer feedback on open issues.
• Organize or volunteer at events.