Contributing to REX-Ray

An introduction to contributing to the REX-Ray project


The REX-Ray project welcomes, and depends, on contributions from developers and users in the open source community. Contributions can be made in a number of ways, a few examples are:

Reporting an Issue

Please include as much detail as you can. This includes:

Testing the Development Version

If you want to just install and try out the latest development version of REX-Ray you can do so with the following command. This can be useful if you want to provide feedback for a new feature or want to confirm if a bug you have encountered is fixed in the git master. It is strongly recommended that you do this within a virtual environment.

curl -sSL https://rexray.io/install | sh -s -- unstable

Installing for Development

First you'll need to fork and clone the repository. Once you have a local copy, run the following command.

make deps && make

This will install REX-Ray into your GOPATH and you'll be able to make changes locally, test them, and commit ideas and fixes back to your fork of the repository.

Running the tests

To run the tests, run the following commands:

make test

Submitting Pull Requests

Once you are happy with your changes or you are ready for some feedback, push it to your fork and send a pull request. For a change to be accepted it will most likely need to have tests and documentation if it is a new feature.