# Contributing Guidelines Thank you for your interest in contributing to our project. Whether it's a bug report, new feature, correction, or additional documentation, we greatly value feedback and contributions from our community. Please read through this document before submitting any issues or pull requests to ensure we have all the necessary information to effectively respond to your bug report or contribution. ## Reporting Bugs/Feature Requests We welcome you to use the GitHub issue tracker to report bugs or suggest features. When filing an issue, please check existing open, or recently closed, issues to make sure somebody else hasn't already reported the issue. Please try to include as much information as you can. Details like these are incredibly useful: * A reproducible test case or series of steps * The version of our code being used * Any modifications you've made relevant to the bug * Anything unusual about your environment or deployment ## Contributing via Pull Requests Contributions via pull requests are much appreciated. Before sending us a pull request, please ensure that: 1. You are working against the latest source on the *main* branch. 2. You check existing open, and recently merged, pull requests to make sure someone else hasn't addressed the problem already. 3. You open an issue to discuss any significant work - we would hate for your time to be wasted. To send us a pull request, please: 1. Fork the repository. 2. Modify the source; please focus on the specific change you are contributing. If you also reformat all the code, it will be hard for us to focus on your change. 3. Ensure local tests pass. 4. Commit to your fork using clear commit messages. 5. Send us a pull request, answering any default questions in the pull request interface. 6. Pay attention to any automated CI failures reported in the pull request, and stay involved in the conversation. GitHub provides additional document on [forking a repository](https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo/) and [creating a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request/). ## Finding contributions to work on Looking at the existing issues is a great way to find something to contribute on. As our projects, by default, use the default GitHub issue labels (enhancement/bug/duplicate/help wanted/invalid/question/wontfix), looking at any 'help wanted' issues is a great place to start. ## Setting up a new sample > **Note** > The information below apply only to samples that use Node.js (i.e. Web apps, etc.). All other > samples can simply create a new folder and add the sample files. Each folder in this repository is a separate sample, however all samples share the same `package.json` and `package-lock.json` files. This is known as a [monorepo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorepo) and it's done via [npm workspaces](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v9/using-npm/workspaces?v=true). To create a new sample, you need to: - Create an empty new folder in the root of the repository (e.g. `my-sample`) - Run `npm init -w my-sample` to initialize the new sample (replace `my-sample` with the name of the folder you created) - Add the sample files to the new folder Whenever you want to install a new dependency, you need to run `npm install <package-name> -w my-sample` (replace `my-sample` with the name of the folder you created). When adding new dependencies, please try to align version numbers with similar dependencies in other samples. > **Warning** > Do not run `npm install` directly in the sample folder. This will install the dependency in the > sample folder, but not in the root folder, which will cause issues with the monorepo. The resulting sample should not have any `package-lock.json` and the main `package.json` at the root of the repository should now have the name of the new sample in the `workspaces` section. ## Code of Conduct This project has adopted the [Amazon Open Source Code of Conduct](https://aws.github.io/code-of-conduct). For more information see the [Code of Conduct FAQ](https://aws.github.io/code-of-conduct-faq) or contact opensource-codeofconduct@amazon.com with any additional questions or comments. ## Security issue notifications If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our [vulnerability reporting page](http://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/). Please do **not** create a public github issue. ## Licensing See the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for our project's licensing. We will ask you to confirm the licensing of your contribution.