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Contributing
First, thank you for contributing to Meilisearch! The goal of this document is to provide everything you need to start contributing to Meilisearch.
Remember that there are many ways to contribute other than writing code: writing tutorials or blog posts, improving the documentation, submitting bug reports and feature requests...
Table of Contents
Assumptions
- You're familiar with Github and the Pull Requests(PR) workflow.
- You've read the Meilisearch documentation.
- You know about the Meilisearch community. Please use this for help.
How to Contribute
- Ensure your change has an issue! Find an
existing issue or open a new issue.
- This is where you can get a feel if the change will be accepted or not.
- Once approved, fork the Meilisearch repository in your own Github account.
- Create a new Git branch
- Review the Development Workflow section that describes the steps to maintain the repository.
- Make your changes on your branch.
- Submit the branch as a Pull Request pointing to the
main
branch of the Meilisearch repository. A maintainer should comment and/or review your Pull Request within a few days. Although depending on the circumstances, it may take longer.
Development Workflow
Setup and run Meilisearch
cargo run --release
We recommend using the --release
flag to test the full performance of Meilisearch.
Test
cargo test
If you get a "Too many open files" error you might want to increase the open file limit using this command:
ulimit -Sn 3000
Git Guidelines
Git Branches
All changes must be made in a branch and submitted as PR.
We do not enforce any branch naming style, but please use something descriptive of your changes.
Git Commits
As minimal requirements, your commit message should:
- be capitalized
- not finish by a dot or any other punctuation character (!,?)
- start with a verb so that we can read your commit message this way: "This commit will ...", where "..." is the commit message. e.g.: "Fix the home page button" or "Add more tests for create_index method"
We don't follow any other convention, but if you want to use one, we recommend the Chris Beams one.
Github Pull Requests
Some notes on GitHub PRs:
- All PRs must be reviewed and approved by at least one maintainer.
- The PR title should be accurate and descriptive of the changes.
- Convert your PR as a draft if your changes are a work in progress: no one will review it until you pass your PR as ready for review.
The draft PRs are recommended when you want to show that you are working on something and make your work visible. - The branch related to the PR must be up-to-date with
main
before merging. Fortunately, this project uses Bors to automatically enforce this requirement without the PR author having to rebase manually.
Release Process (for internal team only)
Meilisearch tools follow the Semantic Versioning Convention.
Automation to rebase and Merge the PRs
This project integrates a bot that helps us manage pull requests merging.
Read more about this.
How to Publish a new Release
The full Meilisearch release process is described in this guide. Please follow it carefully before doing any release.
Thank you again for reading this through, we can not wait to begin to work with you if you made your way through this contributing guide ❤️