Welcome! Our community focuses on helping others and making CoreDNS the best it can be. We gladly accept contributions and encourage you to get involved!
First, please search this repository with a variety of keywords to ensure your bug is not already reported.
If not, open an issue and answer the questions so we can understand and reproduce the problematic behavior.
The burden is on you to convince us that it is actually a bug in CoreDNS. This is easiest to do when you write clear, concise instructions so we can reproduce the behavior (even if it seems obvious). The more detailed and specific you are, the faster we will be able to help you. Check out How to Report Bugs Effectively.
Please be kind. 😄 Remember that CoreDNS comes at no cost to you, and you're getting free help.
Submit pull requests at any time. Make sure to write tests to assert your change is working properly and is thoroughly covered.
First, please search with a variety of keywords to ensure your suggestion/proposal is new.
If so, you may open either an issue or a pull request for discussion and feedback.
If you are going to spend significant time implementing code for a pull request, best to open an issue first and "claim" it and get feedback before you invest a lot of time.
If possible make a pull request as small as possible, or submit multiple pull request to complete a feature. Smaller means: easier to understand and review. This in turn means things can be merged faster.
We use Golang's dep as the tool to manage vendor dependencies.
The tool could be obtained through:
$ go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/depUse the following to update the locked versions of all dependencies
$ make dep-ensureAfter the dependencies have been updated or added, you might run the following to prune vendored packages:
$ dep prunePlease refer to Golang's dep for more details.
Thanks for your help! CoreDNS would not be what it is today without your contributions.