Platform Engineering Team/Event Platform Value Stream/Contribution

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Getting Started

This page contains generale guides for contributing to projects maintained by Platform Engineering Team/Event Platform Value Stream.

TODO: link / include list of projects.

How to contact us

Our public Phabricator board can be found at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1474/.

WMF staff can reach the team on slack by tagging @event-plafrom in the #data-engineering channel.

Before you ask a question, it is best to search for existing tasks and documentation that might help you. In case you have found a suitable issue and still need clarification, please do reach out on slack or phabricator.

Bug reports and enhancement proposals

If you would to report a bug or propose an enhacment, we recommend the following:

• Open a task.
• Tag Event-Platform Value Stream
• Provide as much context, and examples, as you can about what you’re running into.

We will then take care of the issue as soon as possible.

Code contributions

Make sure that any code change matches the conventions and style guidelines of the project you are contributing to.

When you think the code is ready for review a pull request should be created on Gitlab (Github), or a patch should be submitted on Gerrit.

Pull requests (Github/Gitlab)

• Fork the repo you want to contribute to.
• Make sure that all tests, new and existing, pass.
• Open a MR/PR to upstream's `main`.
• Assign the MR/PR to yourself.
• Tag the project maintainers in the MR/PR body.
• Once you receive one approval you can merge the MR/PR.

Change Request (Gerrit)

• Clone repo you want to contribute to and follow the Gerrit setup practices.
• Make sure that all tests, new and existing, pass.
• Submit a patch
• Add the project maintainers as reviewers.
• Once you receive a +2 you can merge the MR/PR.

Documentation changes

If you find mistakes in our documentation, please file a bug on our phabricator board.