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Being a new committer requires to do a whole bunch of steps before the work on CouchDB can start. This document describes many of these tasks and should help to get things working. If there are any questions, please ask on IRC #couchdb-dev or use the dev@couchdb.apache.org mailing list.
The command line examples have been run on Mac OS X but should be easily adapted to other Unix like systems
First Read
Before you start, please read the info found on these pages:
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Community_Guide
http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html
http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html
svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers and read the docs (see 1. setup svn)
Setup svn
http://www.apache.org/dev/version-control.html
Create a pgp key ring with gnupg
How to generate a gnupg key and a fingerprint?
URL: http://www.gnupg.de/gph/en/manual.html
Install gnupg2
brew install gnupg2
Create a keypair
It should be a RSA key with at minimum 4096 bits, avoiding SHA-1. See https://www.apache.org/dev/openpgp.html#sha1 for instructions on the latter.
gpg2 --gen-key
The result is something like this:
pub 4096R/1ED29548 2013-11-06 Key fingerprint = AB44 8542 1E12 1333 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 uid Your Name (CouchDB) <your.name@apache.org> sub 4096R/A62334BF 2013-11-06
Create a revocation certificate
gpg2 --output revoke.asc --gen-revoke your.name@apache.org
Show existing keys
gpg2 --list-keys
Export key
gpg2 --armor --export your.name@apache.org
The output is something like this:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org mQINBFJ6txIBEADHomX4Q+T/GToy3g/goh0EjbfA+bYnJJce1PLKU3zvXXtQeTfA [veeery long letter salad] -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Upload your public key to the MIT pgp-key-server
There are many public key servers available. The one preferred by the ASF is: http://pgp.mit.edu
Simply paste your public key there and submit the form. When done so, search for your name and find your key.
Your key will be added
Your key will be added, when you inserted the key fingerprint at https://id.apache.org/. You will then find your key here: https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/
Setup your ASF id
Note: You should have received or should get a mail welcoming you in the next hours, you will need that mail before you can proceed further.
This is an important step and you should do it now. Jump to this page https://id.apache.org/ and
- insert your PGP fingerprint -> it will be available at https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/ eventually
- set a good password
Create a FOAF file
This is an optional step. The ASF is using this file format (XML) to make informations about you available. Jump to this page and fill the form http://people.apache.org/foaf/foafamatic.html. When done follow these steps:
- create file: <your_asf_username>.rdf
- checkout svn repo https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/info
- commit <your_asf_username>.rdf
- find your entry here: http://people.apache.org/committers
Create an Jenkins account
The Apache CouchDB project is using Jenkins for continuous integration. Create an account here and http://ci.couchdb.org:8888/
and ping Jan Lehnardt afterwards
Create an pootle account
For L10N, the Apache CouchDB project is using the translation service from the ASF. Please create an account at
https://translate.apache.org/accounts/login/?next=%2Fprojects%2FCouchDB%2F
Please use your ASF username and password. The account will be created automatically.
Create an JIRA account
For tickets, JIRA is used. Please jump to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB
and create an account.
Create an Wiki account
Many information are located in a Wiki at https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb. Please jump there and create an account.
Please add your name and a short description to the [[https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Committers|Committers]] page her in the wiki.
Git
The source code of the Apache CouchDB project is versioned with git.
Git info
At
http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/SourceCode
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/#committers-getting-started
you will find many informations regarding git. Please read this carefully.
Git source code repository
The source code of Apache CouchDB can be found here:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
The complete list of all CouchDB git repositories can be found here:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?s=couchdb
Git guidelines
Here is a proposed workflow for git. Please follow these guidelines.
- create a feature branch for bigger changes or tasks or tickets. If it is a ticket the feature branch should be named like: 1912-troubleshooting-guide where 1912 is the ticket number and "Troubleshooting guide" the title of the ticket
- please follow these steps for your work:
- create feature branch from master
- work on feature branch
- clean up feature branch commits
- rebase feature branch onto current master
- merge feature branch into master
- where "clean up" means:
- clean up whitespace in code area
- rebase your work into logical steps - this results in the following single commits
- minimally complete refactoring #1
- minimally complete refactoring #2
- minimally complete refactoring #3
- actual feature/fix, part #1
- actual feature/fix, part #2
Commit message
The first line of the commit message should not be longer than around 60 letters followed by a newline. This avoids breaking commit emails and ugly git logs.
Git configuration
This is how your git config file in the project should look like
.git/config
[core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true ignorecase = true precomposeunicode = false [remote "origin"] url = https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master [user] name = Andy Wenk email = andywenk@apache.org [credential] helper = osxkeychain
Because you don’t want to write your credentials for the git repository each time, you want to cache your password. Please follow these instructions:
https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#password-caching
You may not want to add the user.name, user.email and credential.helper globally but only to the current repository. In this case simply run:
git config user.name "your username" git config user.email "your.name@apache.org" git config credential.helper osxkeychain
To get things working here, you have to setup a .netrc file (or extend an existing) in your home directory with the following content:
~/.netrc
machine git-wip-us.apache.org login <your_asf_username> password *********
Showing your Contributions
If you want your contributions to CouchDB to show up on your GitHub profile,
you have to star each of the repositories due to the way GitHub mechanics work
for repo mirrors.
To do that you can find them all here: https://github.com/apache
You can also show your affiliation with Apache by adding yourself to the following
file available through subversion:
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/docs/github_team.txt
Then politely let infra know and your profile should show up at: https://github.com/apache?tab=members
locale settings
If you have problems building CouchDB, check if your local settings are correct:
locale LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
If LANG is empty, add this to your ~/.bash_profile:
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Links
project site: http://couchdb.apache.org
documentation: http://docs.couchdb.org
translation service: https://translate.apache.org/projects/CouchDB/
Mailing-lists
subscribe to all CouchDB lists http://couchdb.apache.org/#mailing-lists
no attachments are allowed beside zip files
Note when using GMail
There are some known issues when you are using GMail and want to integrate your Apache email address into GMail. Please read the configuration provided at http://www.apache.org/dev/user-email.html#configure. You can use your apache.org email address for the mailing-lists but you are not required to (committer level).
IRC
Very much of the discussions in all areas are held in the IRC channels. Here is the info to set things up:
- client: http://www.codeux.com/textual/, http://limechat.net/mac/
- server: irc.freenode.com
- channels: #couchdb, #couchdb-dev #couchdb-meeting, #couchdb-ci and #asfinfra
- register your nickname with:
/msg NickServ register <a_password> <your_email>
in preferences set start command:
/msg NickServ identify <your_password>
Tools
While developing CouchDB or applications based on CouchDB, it's good to have some tools available. Here is a list with the intention to be extended:
HTTP / TCP
httpie
cUrl
ngrep
wireshark
kerl (Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances)