CONTRIBUTING.md

Developing Temporal Go SDK

This doc is intended for contributors to Go SDK (hopefully that's you!)

Note: All contributors also need to fill out the Temporal Contributor License Agreement before we can merge in any of your changes.

Development Environment

• Go Lang (minimum version required is 1.14):

  • Ubuntu: sudo apt install golang.

  • OS X: brew install go and add this to your .bashrc:

    ```
    export GOPATH=$HOME/go
    export GOROOT="$(brew --prefix go)/libexec"
    export PATH="$PATH:${GOPATH}/bin:${GOROOT}/bin"
    ```
    

Checking out the code

Temporal GO SDK uses go modules, there is no dependency on $GOPATH variable. Clone the repo into the preferred location:

git clone https://github.com/temporalio/sdk-go.git

License headers

This project is Open Source Software, and requires a header at the beginning of all source files. To verify that all files contain the header execute:

make copyright

Commit Messages And Titles of Pull Requests

Overcommit adds some requirements to your commit messages. At Temporal, we follow the Chris Beams guide to writing git commit messages. Read it, follow it, learn it, love it.

All commit messages are from the titles of your pull requests. So make sure follow the rules when titling them. Please don't use very generic titles like "bug fixes".

All PR titles should start with Upper case.

Testing

Run all static analysis tools:

make check

Run all the tests (including integration tests, which require you to run a server locally) with coverage and race detector enabled:

make test

To run just the unit tests:

make unit-test