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Welcome to Universal Blue

Thanks for taking the time to look into helping out! All contributions are appreciated! Please refer to our Code of Conduct while you're at it!

Feel free to report issues as you find them, and helping others in the discussions is always appreciated.

Contributing

All types of contributions are encouraged and valued. See the Table of Contents for different ways to help and details about how this project handles them. Please make sure to read the relevant section before making your contribution. It will make it a lot easier for us maintainers and smooth out the experience for all involved. The community looks forward to your contributions.

And if you like the project, but just don't have time to contribute, that's fine. There are other easy ways to support the project and show your appreciation, which we would also be very happy about:

  • Star the project
  • Tweet about it
  • Refer this project in your project's readme
  • Mention the project at local meetups and tell your friends/colleagues

Table of Contents

Code of Conduct

This project and everyone participating in it is governed by the CONTRIBUTING.md Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected]

I Have a Question

If you want to ask a question, ask in the discussion forum

I Want To Contribute

When contributing to this project, you must agree that you have authored 100% of the content, that you have the necessary rights to the content and that the content you contribute may be provided under the project license.

Generally speaking we try to follow the Lazy Concensus model of development to keep the builds healthy and ourselves happy.

  • If you're looking for concensus to make a decision post an issue for feedback and remember to account for timezones and weekends/holidays/work time.
  • We want people to be opinionated in their builds so we're more of a loose confederation of repos than a top-down org.
  • Try not to merge your own stuff, ask for a review. At some point when we have enough reviewers we'll be turning on branch protection.

Reporting Bugs

Before Submitting a Bug Report

A good bug report should describe the issue in detail. Generally speaking:

  • Make sure that you are using the latest version.
  • Remember that these are unofficial builds, it's usually prudent to investigate an issue before reporting it here or in Fedora!
  • Collect information about the bug:
    • rpm-ostree status -v usually helps
  • Image and Version
  • Possibly your input and the output
  • Can you reliably reproduce the issue? And can you also reproduce it with older versions?

How to test incoming changes

One of the nice things about the image model is that we can generate an entire OS image for every change we want to commit, so this makes testing way easier than in the past. You can rebase to it, see if it works, and then move back. This also means we can increase the amount of testers!

We strive towards a model where proposed changes are more thoroughly reviewed and tested by the community. So here's how to do it. If you see a pull request that is opened up on an image you're following you can leave a review on how it's working for you. At the bottom of every PR you'll see something like this:

image

Click on "Add your review", and then you'll see this:

image

Don't worry, you can't mess anything up, all the merging and stuff will be done by the maintainer, what this does is lets us gather information in a more formal manner than just shoving everything in a forum thread. The more people are reviewing and testing images, the better off we'll be, especially for images that are new like Sericea.

At some point we'll have a bot that will leave you instructions on how to rebase to the image and all that stuff, but in the meantime we'll leave instructions manually.

Here's an example: https://github.com/ublue-os/nvidia/pull/49

Building Locally

The minimum tools required are git and a working machine with podman enabled and configured. Building locally is much faster than building in GitHub and is a good way to move fast before pushing to a remote.

Clone the repo you want

git clone https://github.com/ublue-os/base.git

Build the image

First make sure you can build an existing image: 

podman build . -t something

Then confirm your image built:

podman image ls

TODO: Set up and push to your own local registry

Make your changes

This usually involved editing the Containerfile. Most techniques for building containers apply here, if you're new to containers using the term "Dockerfile" in your searches usually shows more results when you're searching for information.

Check out CoreOS's layering examples for more information on customizing.

Reporting problems to Fedora

We endevaour to be a good partner for Fedora.

This project is consuming new features in Fedora and ostree, it is not uncommon to find an issue. Issues should be reported upstream, and in some cases we can help test and find fixes. Some of the issues you find may involve other dependencies in other projects, in those cases the Fedora team will tell you where to report the issue.

Upstream bug tracker: https://github.com/fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker/issues

Styleguides

Commit Messages

We use Conventional Commits and enforce them with a bot to keep the changelogs tidy:

chore: add Oyster build script
                            docs: explain hat wobble
                            feat: add beta sequence
                            fix: remove broken confirmation message
                            refactor: share logic between 4d3d3d3 and flarhgunnstow
                            style: convert tabs to spaces
                            test: ensure Tayne retains clothing

Nvidia

Please note, RPM Fusion supports the initial Nvidia driver release available with each Fedora version as well as the latest version. Any intermittent versions are not maintained by RPM Fusion after they have been superceded with a new version.

Keep in mind checks, other than building the akmods, do fail in pull requests.

Join The Project Team

If you're interested in maintaining something then let us know!

Attribution

This guide is based on the contributing.md. Make your own!