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-Checklist (and a short version for the impatient)
-=================================================
+This module has grown over time based on a range of contributions from
+people using it. If you follow these contributing guidelines your patch
+will likely make it into a release a little quicker.
- * Commits:
- - Make commits of logical units.
+## Contributing
- - Check for unnecessary whitespace with "git diff --check" before
- committing.
+Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms. [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://voxpupuli.org/coc/).
- - Commit using Unix line endings (check the settings around "crlf" in
- git-config(1)).
+1. Fork the repo.
- - Do not check in commented out code or unneeded files.
+1. Create a separate branch for your change.
- - The first line of the commit message should be a short
- description (50 characters is the soft limit, excluding ticket
- number(s)), and should skip the full stop.
+1. Run the tests. We only take pull requests with passing tests, and
+ documentation.
- - Associate the issue in the message. If any issue exists in the body of
- the commit a line like "Closes: #XXX" or "Mentions: #XXX" is expected.
+1. Add a test for your change. Only refactoring and documentation
+ changes require no new tests. If you are adding functionality
+ or fixing a bug, please add a test.
- - The body should provide a meaningful commit message, which:
+1. Squash your commits down into logical components. Make sure to rebase
+ against the current master.
- - uses the imperative, present tense: "change", not "changed" or
- "changes".
+1. Push the branch to your fork and submit a pull request.
- - includes motivation for the change, and contrasts its
- implementation with the previous behavior.
+Please be prepared to repeat some of these steps as our contributors review
+your code.
- - Make sure that you have tests for the bug you are fixing, or
- feature you are adding.
+## Dependencies
- - Make sure the test suites passes after your commit:
- `bundle exec rake spec` More information on [testing](#Testing) below
+The testing and development tools have a bunch of dependencies,
+all managed by [bundler](http://bundler.io/) according to the
+[Puppet support matrix](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html#ruby-versions).
- - When introducing a new feature, make sure it is properly
- documented in the README.md
+By default the tests use a baseline version of Puppet.
- * Submission:
+If you have Ruby 2.x or want a specific version of Puppet,
+you must set an environment variable such as:
- * Pre-requisites:
+ export PUPPET_VERSION="~> 4.2.0"
- - Make sure you have a [GitHub account](https://github.com/join)
+Install the dependencies like so...
- * Preferred method:
+ bundle install
- - Fork the repository on GitHub.
+## Syntax and style
- - Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
+The test suite will run [Puppet Lint](http://puppet-lint.com/) and
+[Puppet Syntax](https://github.com/gds-operations/puppet-syntax) to
+check various syntax and style things. You can run these locally with:
- - Submit a pull request to the repository in the puppet-community namespace.
+ bundle exec rake test
-The long version
-================
+## Running the unit tests
- 1. Make separate commits for logically separate changes.
+The unit test suite covers most of the code, as mentioned above please
+add tests if you're adding new functionality. If you've not used
+[rspec-puppet](http://rspec-puppet.com/) before then feel free to ask
+about how best to test your new feature. To run your specific spec test
+you can pass it to `SPEC`:
- Please break your commits down into logically consistent units
- which include new or changed tests relevant to the rest of the
- change. The goal of doing this is to make the diff easier to
- read for whoever is reviewing your code. In general, the easier
- your diff is to read, the more likely someone will be happy to
- review it and get it into the code base.
+ bundle exec rake spec SPEC=spec/foo_spec.rb
- If you are going to refactor a piece of code, please do so as a
- separate commit from your feature or bug fix changes.
+## Integration tests
- We also really appreciate changes that include tests to make
- sure the bug is not re-introduced, and that the feature is not
- accidentally broken.
+The unit tests just check the code runs, not that it does exactly what
+we want on a real machine. For that we're using
+[beaker](https://github.com/puppetlabs/beaker).
- Describe the technical detail of the change(s). If your
- description starts to get too long, that is a good sign that you
- probably need to split up your commit into more finely grained
- pieces.
+This fires up a new virtual machine (using vagrant) and runs a series of
+simple tests against it after applying the module. You can run this
+with:
- Commits which plainly describe the things which help
- reviewers check the patch and future developers understand the
- code are much more likely to be merged in with a minimum of
- bike-shedding or requested changes. Ideally, the commit message
- would include information, and be in a form suitable for
- inclusion in the release notes for the version of Puppet that
- includes them.
+ bundle exec rake acceptance
- Please also check that you are not introducing any trailing
- whitespace or other "whitespace errors". You can do this by
- running "git diff --check" on your changes before you commit.
+This will run the tests on an Ubuntu 12.04 virtual machine. You can also
+run the integration tests against Centos 6.5 with.
- 2. Sending your patches
+ RS_SET=centos-64-x64 bundle exec rake acceptances
- To submit your changes via a GitHub pull request, we _highly_
- recommend that you have them on a topic branch, instead of
- directly on "master".
+If you don't want to have to recreate the virtual machine every time you
+can use `BEAKER_DESTROY=no` and `BEAKER_PROVISION=no`. On the first run you will
+at least need `BEAKER_PROVISION` set to yes (the default). The Vagrantfile
+for the created virtual machines will be in `.vagrant/beaker_vagrant_fies`.
- It makes things much easier to keep track of, especially if
- you decide to work on another thing before your first change
- is merged in.
-
- GitHub has some pretty good
- [general documentation](http://help.github.com/) on using
- their site. They also have documentation on
- [creating pull requests](http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/).
-
- In general, after pushing your topic branch up to your
- repository on GitHub, you can switch to the branch in the
- GitHub UI and click "Pull Request" towards the top of the page
- in order to open a pull request.
-
-
- 3. Update the related GitHub issue.
-
- If there is a GitHub issue associated with the change you
- submitted, then you should update the ticket to include the
- location of your branch, along with any other commentary you
- may wish to make.
-
-Testing
-=======
-
-Getting Started
----------------
-
-Our puppet modules provide [`Gemfile`](./Gemfile)s which can tell a ruby
-package manager such as [bundler](http://bundler.io/) what Ruby packages,
-or Gems, are required to build, develop, and test this software.
-
-Please make sure you have [bundler installed](http://bundler.io/#getting-started)
-on your system, then use it to install all dependencies needed for this project,
-by running
-
-```shell
-% bundle install
-Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/........
-Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
-Using rake (10.1.0)
-Using builder (3.2.2)
--- 8><-- many more --><8 --
-Using rspec-system-puppet (2.2.0)
-Using serverspec (0.6.3)
-Using rspec-system-serverspec (1.0.0)
-Using bundler (1.3.5)
-Your bundle is complete!
-Use `bundle show [gemname]` to see where a bundled gem is installed.
-```
-
-NOTE some systems may require you to run this command with `sudo`.
-
-If you already have those gems installed, make sure they are up-to-date:
-
-```shell
-% bundle update
-```
-
-With all dependencies in place and up-to-date we can now run the tests:
-
-```shell
-% rake spec
-```
-
-This will execute all the [rspec tests](http://rspec-puppet.com/) tests
-under [spec/defines](./spec/defines), [spec/classes](./spec/classes),
-and so on. rspec tests may have the same kind of dependencies as the
-module they are testing. While the module defines in its [Modulefile](./Modulefile),
-rspec tests define them in [.fixtures.yml](./fixtures.yml).
-
-Writing Tests
--------------
-
-XXX getting started writing tests.
-
-If you have commit access to the repository
-===========================================
-
-Even if you have commit access to the repository, you will still need to
-go through the process above, and have someone else review and merge
-in your changes. The rule is that all changes must be reviewed by a
-developer on the project (that did not write the code) to ensure that
-all changes go through a code review process.
-
-Having someone other than the author of the topic branch recorded as
-performing the merge is the record that they performed the code
-review.
-
-
-Additional Resources
-====================
-
-* [Getting additional help](http://puppetlabs.com/community/get-help)
-
-* [Writing tests](http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Development_Writing_Tests)
-
-* [General GitHub documentation](http://help.github.com/)
-
-* [GitHub pull request documentation](http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/)