How to contribute

Being an open source project means any help offered will be greatly appreciated, below is a quick run through of how you can help

Getting Started

  • Fork the latest branch of the component you want to contribute to:

    • api-manager - the api endpoint through which Nebula is controlled, includes api-manager Dockerfile & entire code structure
    • docs - docs (schematics, wishlist\todo's, and API doc)
    • worker-manager - the worker manager that manages individual Nebula workers, includes worker-manager Dockerfile & entire code structure
    • nebula-python-sdk - a pythonic SDK for using Nebula
    • nebula-cmd - a CLI for using Nebula
    • nebula-orchestrator.github.io - the Jekyll based main website
  • Make sure you have a GitHub account

  • Use virtualenv to install all requirements from the requirements.txt file
  • Fix an issue \ add a feature
  • Create a pull request

Design philosophy

Nebula is designed with the following philosophy in mind, any feature\pull requests will be judged against the following:

  • Follow Linux philosophy and have each component do one thing & one thing only.
  • Each component needs to be possible to be scaled out to extremely large sizes.
  • Reliability is more important then shiny new features.
  • No vendor\cloud lock-in, if it's only available in one cloud it will not be used.
  • No latency sensitivity, assume workers to have a below average internet access and are in the other side of the world.

Documentation

Nebula docs are hosted at readthedocs using MkDocs for their creation, reading them is highly recommended prior to making any pull requests

What you can help with

  • Documentation - everyone hates them but without them would you be able to figure out how to use Nebula?
  • Bug fixes / feature requests - anything off github issues lists
  • Submitting tickets - even if you don't have the time\knowledge to fix a bug just opening a github issue about it will greatly help
  • Suggesting improvements
  • For really large tasks (if you have a lot of time) - doing anything off the roadmap
  • Spreading the word

Summary

  • Your awesome for helping, thanks.

P.S. Don't forget to add yourself to to CONTRIBUTORS.md file.