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Contributing to consul-alerts

👍🎉 First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🎉👍

The following is a set of guidelines for contributing to consul-alerts. These are just guidelines, not rules, use your best judgment and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.

Table Of Contents

What should I know before I get started?

How Can I Contribute?

What should I know before I get started?

Code of Conduct

This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code.

How Can I Contribute?

Reporting Bugs

This section guides you through submitting a bug report for consul-alerts. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your report 📝, reproduce the behavior 💻 💻, and find related reports 🔎.

Before creating bug reports, please check the project's GitHub issues as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating a bug report, please include as many details as possible.

Before Submitting A Bug Report

  • Perform a cursory search to see if the problem has already been reported. If it has, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.

How Do I Submit A (Good) Bug Report?

Bugs are tracked as GitHub issues. Create an issue and provide the following information.

Explain the problem and include additional details to help maintainers reproduce the problem:

  • Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the problem.
  • Describe the exact steps which reproduce the problem in as many details as possible. For example, start by explaining how you started consul-alerts, e.g. which command exactly you used in the terminal, or how you started consul-alerts otherwise. When listing steps, don't just say what you did, but explain how you did it.
  • Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include links to files or GitHub projects, or copy/pasteable snippets, which you use in those examples. If you're providing snippets in the issue, use Markdown code blocks.
  • Describe the behavior you observed after following the steps and point out what exactly is the problem with that behavior.
  • Explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.

Include details about your configuration and environment:

  • Which version of consul-alerts are you using?
  • Which version of Consul are you using?
  • What's the name and version of the OS you're using?
  • Are you running consul-alerts in the Cloud or a Virtual Machine? If so, which Provider or VM software are you using?

Suggesting Enhancements

This section guides you through submitting an enhancement suggestion for consul-alerts, including completely new features and minor improvements to existing functionality. Following these guidelines helps maintainers and the community understand your suggestion 📝 and find related suggestions 🔎.

Before creating enhancement suggestions, please check GitHub issues as you might find out that you don't need to create one. When you are creating an enhancement suggestion, please include as many details as possible.

Before Submitting An Enhancement Suggestion

  • Perform a issue search to see if the enhancement has already been suggested. If it has, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.

How Do I Submit A (Good) Enhancement Suggestion?

Enhancement suggestions are tracked as GitHub issues. Create an issue and provide the following information:

  • Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
  • Provide a step-by-step description of the suggested enhancement in as many details as possible.
  • Provide specific examples to demonstrate the steps. Include copy/pasteable snippets which you use in those examples, as Markdown code blocks.
  • Describe the current behavior and explain which behavior you expected to see instead and why.
  • Explain why this enhancement would be useful to most consul-alerts users.

Your First Code Contribution

Unsure where to begin contributing to consul-alerts? Please check our GitHub issues list for Open issues or enhancements.