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1 # Contributing to the OpenDaylight Puppet Module
2
3 We work to make contributing easy. Please let us know if you spot something
4 we can do better.
5
6 #### Table of Contents
7 1. [Overview](#overview)
8 1. [Communication](#communication)
9     * [Issues](#issues)
10     * [Gitter](#gitter)
11 1. [Patches](#patches)
12 1. [Testing](#testing)
13     * [Test Dependencies](#test-dependencies)
14     * [Syntax and Style Tests](#syntax-and-style-tests)
15     * [Unit Tests](#unit-tests)
16     * [System Tests](#system-tests)
17     * [Tests in Continuous Integration](#tests-in-continuous-integration)
18
19 ## Overview
20
21 We use [GitHub Issues][1] for most communication, including bug reports,
22 feature requests and questions.
23
24 We accept patches via [GitHub Pull Requests][2]. Please fork our repo,
25 make your changes, commit them to a feature branch and *submit a PR to
26 have it merged back into this project*. We'll give feedback and get it
27 merged ASAP.
28
29 ## Communication
30
31 *Please use public, documented communication instead of reaching out to
32 developers 1-1.*
33
34 Open Source projects benefit from always communicating in the open. Previously
35 answered questions end up becoming documentation for other people hitting
36 similar issues. More eyes may get your question answered faster. Doing
37 everything in the open keeps community members on an equal playing field
38 (`@<respected company>` email addresses don't get priority, good questions do).
39
40 We prefer [Issues][1] for most communication.
41
42 ### Issues
43
44 Please use our [GitHub Issues][1] freely, even for small things! They are the
45 primary method by which we track what's going on in the project.
46
47 The labels assigned to an issue can tell you important things about it.
48
49 For example, issues tagged [`good-for-beginners`][3] are likely to not require
50 much background knowledge and be fairly self-contained, perfect for people new
51 to the project who are looking to get involved.
52
53 The priority-related issue labels ([`prio:high`][4], [`piro:normal`][5]...)
54 are also important to note. They typically accurately reflect the next TODOs
55 the community will complete.
56
57 The `info:progress` labels may not always be up-to-date, but will be used when
58 appropriate (typically long-standing issues that take multiple commits).
59
60 Issues can be referenced and manipulated from git commit messages. Just
61 referencing the issue's number (`#42`) will link the commit and issue. Issues
62 can also be closed from commit messages with `closes #42` (and [a variety
63 of other key words][6]).
64
65 ### Gitter
66
67 We're experimenting with Gitter, a GitHub-driven chat service that works on a
68 per-repo basis.
69
70 Feel free to hop in [our room][7] and test it out with us.
71
72 ## Patches
73
74 Please use [Pull Requests][2] to submit patches.
75
76 Basics of a pull request:
77 * Use the GitHub web UI to fork our repo.
78 * Clone your fork to your local system.
79 * Make your changes.
80 * Commit your changes, using a [good commit message][8] and referencing any
81 applicable issues.
82 * Push your commit.
83 * Submit a pull request against the project, again using GitHub's web UI.
84 * We'll give feedback and get your changed merged ASAP.
85 * You contributed! [Thank you][9]!
86
87 Other tips for submitting excellent pull requests:
88 * If you'd like to make more than one logically distinct change, please submit
89 them as different pull requests (if they don't depend on each other) or
90 different commits in the same PR (if they do).
91 * If your PR contains a number of commits that provide one logical change,
92 please squash them using `git rebase`.
93 * Please provide test coverage for your changes.
94 * If applicable, please provide documentation updates to reflect your changes.
95
96 ## Testing
97
98 ### Test Dependencies
99
100 The testing tools have a number of dependencies. We use [Bundler][10] to make
101 installing them easy.
102
103 ```
104 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ yum install -y rubygems ruby-devel gcc-c++ zlib-devel patch
105 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ gem install bundler
106 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle install
107 ```
108
109 ### Syntax and Style Tests
110
111 We use [Puppet Lint][11], [Puppet Syntax][12] and [metadata-json-lint][13] to
112 validate the module's syntax and style.
113
114 ```
115 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake lint
116 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake syntax
117 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake metadata
118 ```
119
120 ### Unit Tests
121
122 We use rspec-puppet to provide unit test coverage.
123
124 To run the unit tests and generate a coverage report, use:
125
126 ```
127 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake spec
128 # Snip test output
129 Finished in 10.08 seconds (files took 0.50776 seconds to load)
130 537 examples, 0 failures
131
132
133 Total resources:   19
134 Touched resources: 19
135 Resource coverage: 100.00%
136 ```
137
138 Note that we have a very large number of tests and 100% test coverage.
139
140 To run the syntax, style and unit tests in one rake task (recommended), use:
141
142 ```
143 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake test
144 ```
145
146 ### System Tests
147
148 While the [unit tests](#unit-tests) are able to quickly find many errors,
149 they don't do much more than checking that the code compiles to a given state.
150 To verify that the Puppet module behaves as desired once applied to a real,
151 running system, we use [Beaker][14].
152
153 Beaker stands up virtual machines using Vagrant, applies the OpenDaylight
154 Puppet module with various combinations of params and uses [Serverspec][15]
155 to validate the resulting system state.
156
157 Beaker depends on Vagrant ([Vagrant downloads page][18]) for managing VMs,
158 which in turn depends on VirtualBox ([VirtualBox downloads page][19]) and
159 the `kmod-VirtualBox` package.
160
161 To run our Beaker tests against the primary target OS (CentOS 7) using the
162 recommended RPM-based install method, use:
163
164 ```
165 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake centos
166 ```
167
168 There are a number of pre-defined rake tasks to simplify running common
169 Beaker tests.
170
171 ```
172 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake centos
173 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake centos_tarball
174 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake fedora_20
175 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake fedora_21
176 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ bundle exec rake ubuntu
177 ```
178
179 If you'd like to preserve the Beaker VM after a test run, perhaps for manual
180 inspection or a quicker follow-up test run, use the `BEAKER_destroy`
181 environment variable.
182
183 ```
184 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ BEAKER_destroy=no bundle exec rake centos
185 ```
186
187 You can then connect to the VM by navigating to the directory that contains
188 its Vagrantfile and using standard Vagrant commands.
189
190 ```
191 [~/puppet-opendaylight]$ cd .vagrant/beaker_vagrant_files/centos-7.yml
192 [~/puppet-opendaylight/.vagrant/beaker_vagrant_files/centos-7.yml]$ vagrant status
193 Current machine states:
194
195 centos-7                  running (virtualbox)
196 [~/puppet-opendaylight/.vagrant/beaker_vagrant_files/centos-7.yml]$ vagrant ssh
197 [vagrant@centos-7 ~]$ sudo systemctl status opendaylight
198 opendaylight.service - OpenDaylight SDN Controller
199    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/opendaylight.service; enabled)
200    Active: active (running) since Fri 2015-04-24 16:34:07 UTC; 1min 1s ago
201      Docs: https://wiki.opendaylight.org/view/Main_Page
202            http://www.opendaylight.org/
203 [vagrant@centos-7 ~]$ logout
204 [~/puppet-opendaylight/.vagrant/beaker_vagrant_files/centos-7.yml]$ vagrant destroy -f
205 ```
206
207 For more information about using Beaker, see [these docs][16].
208
209 ### Tests in Continuous Integration
210
211 We use [Travis CI][17] to run our unit, syntax and style tests against a
212 matrix of supported Ruby and Puppet versions at every commit. This currently
213 results in >8500 automated tests per commit.
214
215
216 [1]: https://github.com/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight/issues
217 [2]: https://github.com/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight/pulls
218 [3]: https://github.com/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight/labels/good-for-beginners
219 [4]: https://github.com/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight/labels/prio%3Ahigh
220 [5]: https://github.com/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight/labels/prio%3Anormal
221 [6]: https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages/
222 [7]: https://gitter.im/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight
223 [8]: http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
224 [9]: http://cdn3.volusion.com/74gtv.tjme9/v/vspfiles/photos/Delicious%20Dozen-1.jpg
225 [10]: http://bundler.io/
226 [11]: http://puppet-lint.com/
227 [12]: https://github.com/gds-operations/puppet-syntax
228 [13]: https://github.com/puppet-community/metadata-json-lint
229 [14]: https://github.com/puppetlabs/beaker
230 [15]: http://serverspec.org/resource_types.html
231 [16]: https://github.com/puppetlabs/beaker/wiki/How-to-Write-a-Beaker-Test-for-a-Module#typical-workflow
232 [17]: https://travis-ci.org/dfarrell07/puppet-opendaylight
233 [18]: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
234 [19]: www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads