go-inbucket/CONTRIBUTING.md

How to Contribute

Inbucket encourages third-party patches. It's valuable to know how other developers are using the product.

Getting Started

If you anticipate your issue requiring a large patch, please first submit a GitHub issue describing the problem or feature. You are also encouraged to outline the process you would like to use to resolve the issue. I will attempt to provide validation and/or guidance on your suggested approach.

Making Changes

Inbucket uses git-flow with default options. If you have git-flow installed, you can run git flow feature start <topic branch name>.

Without git-flow, create a topic branch from where you want to base your work:

• This is usually the develop branch, example command: git checkout origin/develop -b <topic branch name>
• Only target the master branch if the issue is already resolved in develop.

Once you are on your topic branch:

1. Make commits of logical units.
2. Add unit tests to exercise your changes.
3. Run the updated code through go fmt and go vet.
4. Ensure the code builds and tests with the following commands:

• go clean ./...
• go build ./...
• go test ./...

Thanks

Thank you for contributing to Inbucket!