Contributing to OSBS

Setting up a (local) development environment

OSBS-Box aims to provide a convenient way to set up an entire OSBS environment on your machine or a VM.

You will first need to set up an OpenShift Origin cluster. OSBS-Box might work with other OpenShift clusters as long as you are able to log in as system:admin.

Afterwards, refer to the OSBS-Box readme for further instructions on deployment, usage etc.

OSBS-Box environment

osbs-koji

Containerized deployment of Koji. Koji-builder uses osbs-client, koji-client, koji-hub and koji-builder use the koji-containerbuild cli, hub and builder plugins respectively.

Use the koji-client container to run container builds.

osbs-orchestrator

Main OSBS namespace, contains reactor-config-map and buildroot.

osbs-buildroot: Image inside the orchestrator namespace, does most of the container-building work. Uses atomic-reactor, osbs-client and dockerfile-parse.

osbs-worker

Worker namespace for the x86_64 architecture (OSBS-Box does not support other arches).

osbs-registry

Container registry service. Push base images for your builds to the registry, pull the built images from it.

Contribution guidelines

Submitting changes

Changes are accepted through pull requests. If you want to implement major new functionality, we’d like to ask you to open a bug with proposal to discuss it with us. We’re nice folks and we don’t bite – we just want to see what you’re up to and a chance to give some suggestions to save your time as well as ours.

Please create your feature branch from the master branch. Make sure to add unit tests under the tests/ subdirectory (we use py.test and flexmock for this). When you push new commits, tests will be triggered to be run GitHub Actions and results will be shown in your pull request. You can also run them locally from the top directory (py.test tests). You can also use the test.sh script to run these tests in a container.

Follow the PEP8 coding style. This project allows 99 characters per line.

Please make sure each commit is for a complete logical change, and has a useful commit message. When making changes in response to suggestions, it is fine to make new commits for them but please make sure to squash them into the relevant “logical change” commit before the pull request is merged.

Before a pull request is approved it must meet these criteria:

  • Commit messages are descriptive enough

  • “Signed-off-by:” line is present in each commit

  • Unit tests pass

  • Code coverage from testing does not decrease and new code is covered

  • JSON/YAML configuration changes are updated in the relevant schema

  • Changes to metadata also update the documentation for the metadata

  • Pull request includes link to an osbs-docs PR for user documentation updates

  • New feature can be disabled from a configuration file

Once it is approved by two developer team members someone from the team will merge it. To avoid creating merge commits the pull request will be rebased during the merge.

Licensing

This project is licensed using the BSD-3-Clause license. When submitting pull requests please make sure your commit messages include a signed-off-by line to certify the below text:

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.

You can do this by using git commit –signoff when committing changes, making sure that your real name is included.

Code policies

Retry on error

Requests to a remote service should be retried if the failure is not definitely permanent.

In most cases there should be a delay before retrying. The only reason to retry immediately is when the request is likely to succeed when immediately retried (i.e. the cause is known). An example would be retrying a PUT operation which was rejected due to conflicts.

There should be a maximum number of attempts before giving up and reporting an exception.

The delay and the maximum number of attempts should both be configurable if feasible. If not explicitly configured and an HTTP request to be retried included a Retry-After header in the response, the Retry-After header should be used to set the delay time.

When alternate remote services are available, retries should only be attempted if no alternates succeed. For example, when selecting a worker cluster a failure should immediately result in the next worker cluster being tried. If there is no such cluster, or all configured worker clusters fail, retries should be attempted, including a delay if appropriate (depending on the failure).

There should only be a single “level” of retry logic, unless there is a good reason. For example, if dockpulp implements retry logic for one of its operations, atomic-reactor should not retry that operation (unless it makes sense to). In other words: be aware of which calls implicitly retry.