Contributing to Aya

Thanks for your help improving the project!

Reporting issues

If you believe you've discovered a bug in aya, please check if the bug is already known or create an issue on github. Please also report an issue if you find documentation that you think is confusing or could be improved.

When creating a new issue, make sure to include as many details as possible to help us understand the problem. When reporting a bug, always specify which version of aya you're using and which version of the linux kernel.

Documentation

If you find an API that is not documented, unclear or missing examples, please file an issue. If you make changes to the documentation, please read https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/how-to-write-documentation.html and make sure your changes conform to the format outlined here https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustdoc/how-to-write-documentation.html#documenting-components.

If you want to make changes to the Aya Book, see the readme in the book repo https://github.com/aya-rs/book.

Fixing bugs and implementing new features

Make sure that your work is tracked by an issue or a (draft) pull request, this helps us avoid duplicating work. If your work includes publicly visible changes, make sure those are properly documented as explained in the section above.

Running tests

Run the unit tests with cargo test. See Aya Integration Tests regarding running the integration tests.

Commits

It is a recommended best practice to keep your changes as logically grouped as possible within individual commits. If while you're developing you prefer doing a number of commits that are "checkpoints" and don't represent a single logical change, please squash those together before asking for a review.

Commit message guidelines

A good commit message should describe what changed and why.

The first line should:
- contain a short description of the change (preferably 50 characters or less, and no more than 72 characters)
- be entirely in lowercase with the exception of proper nouns, acronyms, and the words that refer to code, like function/variable names
- be prefixed with the name of the sub crate being changed

Examples:

aya: handle reordered functions
aya-bpf: SkSkbContext: add ::l3_csum_replace

Keep the second line blank.
Wrap all other lines at 72 columns (except for long URLs).
If your patch fixes an open issue, you can add a reference to it at the end of the log. Use the Fixes: # prefix and the issue number. For other references use Refs: #. Refs may include multiple issues, separated by a comma.