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How to Contribute to Avalanche

Setup

To start developing on AvalancheGo, you'll need a few things installed.

  • Golang version >= 1.19.12
  • gcc
  • g++

Issues

Security

  • Do not open up a GitHub issue if it relates to a security vulnerability in AvalancheGo, and instead refer to our security policy.

Did you fix whitespace, format code, or make a purely cosmetic patch?

  • Changes from the community that are cosmetic in nature and do not add anything substantial to the stability, functionality, or testability of avalanchego will generally not be accepted.

Making an Issue

  • Check that the issue you're filing doesn't already exist by searching under issues.
  • If you're unable to find an open issue addressing the problem, open a new one. Be sure to include a title and clear description with as much relevant information as possible.

Features

  • If you want to start a discussion about the development of a new feature or the modfiication of an existing one, start a thread under GitHub discussions.
  • Post a thread about your idea and why it should be added to AvalancheGo.
  • Don't start working on a pull request until you've received positive feedback from the maintainers.

Pull Request Guidelines

  • Open a new GitHub pull request containing your changes.
  • Ensure the PR description clearly describes the problem and solution. Include the relevant issue number if applicable.
  • The PR should be opened against the dev branch.
  • If your PR isn't ready to be reviewed just yet, you can open it as a draft to collect early feedback on your changes.
  • Once the PR is ready for review, mark it as ready-for-review and request review from one of the maintainers.

Autogenerated code

  • Any changes to protobuf message types require that protobuf files are regenerated.
./scripts/protobuf_codegen.sh
  • To add or remove an interface that needs a corresponding mock generated, add it to the mock file here. You can regenerate the mocks by running the following script.
./scripts/mock.gen.sh

Testing

Local

  • Build the avalanchego binary
./scripts/build.sh
  • Run unit tests
./scripts/build_test.sh
  • Run the linter
./scripts/lint.sh

Continuous Integration (CI)

  • Pull requests will generally not be approved or merged unless they pass CI.

Other

Do you have questions about the source code?

  • Ask any question about AvalancheGo under GitHub discussions.

Do you want to contribute to the Avalanche documentation?

  • Please check out the avalanche-docs repository here.