sops/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to SOPS

The SOPS project welcomes contributions from everyone. Here are a few guidelines and instructions if you are thinking of helping with the development of SOPS.

Getting started

• Make sure you have Go 1.19 or greater installed. You can find information on how to install Go here
• Clone the Git repository and switch into SOPS's directory.
• Run the tests with make test. They should all pass.
• If you modify documentation (RST or MD files), run make checkdocs to run rstcheck and markdownlint. These should also pass. If you need help in fixing issues, create a pull request (see below) and ask for help.
• Fork the project on GitHub.
• Add your fork to Git's remotes:
  • If you use SSH authentication: git remote add <your username> git@github.com:<your username>/sops.git.
  • Otherwise: git remote add <your username> https://github.com/<your username>/sops.git.
• Make any changes you want to SOPS, commit them, and push them to your fork.
• Create a pull request against main, and a maintainer will come by and review your code. They may ask for some changes, and hopefully your contribution will be merged!

Guidelines

• Unless it's particularly hard, changes that fix a bug should have a regression test to make sure that the bug is not introduced again.
• New features and changes to existing features should be documented, and, if possible, tested.

Communication

If you need any help contributing to SOPS, several maintainers are on the #sops-dev channel on the CNCF Slack.