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Your contribution is more than welcome.

Got a Question or Problem?

If you have questions about how to use LaraDock, please direct your questions to the discussion on Gitter. If you believe your question could help others, then consider opening an Issue (it will be labeled as Question).

Found an Issue?

If you find a bug in the source code or a mistake in the documentation, you can help us by submitting an Issue. Even better you can submit a Pull Request with a fix.

Want a Feature?

You can request a new feature by submitting an Issue (it will be labeled as Feature Suggestion). If you would like to implement a new feature then consider submitting a Pull Request.

Update Documentation (Site)

Laradock uses Hugo as website generator tool, with the Material Docs theme. You might need to check their docs quickly.

1. Install Hugo on your machine.
2. Clone laradock.
3. Go to /docs.
4. Delete everything except the _settings folder & the CNAME file.
5. Open docs/_settings from your terminal and run hugo serve to host the website locally.
6. Open the docs/_settings/content and search for the folder of the section you want to edit.
7. In each section there's an index.md file, that's the file you need to edit.
8. To edit the sidebar (in case you are adding new section) go to docs/_settings/config.toml and add the section there.
9. After done editing, run the this command hugo to generate the updated site inside the docs folder.
10. Go back to the project root directory, commit and push..

Coding Guidelines

Support new Software

• Create folder with the software name.

• Add a Dockerfile, write your code there.

• You may add additional files in the software folder.

• Add the software to the docker-compose.yml file.

• Make sure you follow our commenting style.

• Add the software in the Readme.

Edit existing Software

• Open the software (container) folder.

• Edit the files you want to update.

• Note: If you want to edit the base image of the Workspace or the php-fpm Containers, you need to edit their Docker-files from their GitHub repositories. For more info read their Dockerfiles comment on the LaraDock repository.

• Make sure to update the Readme in case you made any changes.

Issue/PR Submission Guidelines

Submitting an Issue

Before you submit your issue search the archive, maybe your question was already answered.

If your issue appears to be a bug, and hasn't been reported, open a new issue. Help us to maximize the effort we can spend fixing issues and adding new features, by not reporting duplicate issues.

Before Submitting a Pull Request (PR)

Always Test everything and make sure its working:

• Pull the latest updates (or fork of you don’t have permission)
• Before editing anything:
  • Test building the container (docker-compose build --no-cache container-name) build with no cache first.
  • Test running the container with some other containers in real app and see of everything is working fine.
• Now edit the container (edit section by section and test rebuilding the container after every edited section)
  • Testing building the container (docker-compose build container-name) with no errors.
  • Test it in real App.

Submitting a PR

Consider the following guidelines:

• Search GitHub for an open or closed Pull Request that relates to your submission. You don't want to duplicate effort.

• Make your changes in a new git branch:

   git checkout -b my-fix-branch master
  

• Commit your changes using a descriptive commit message.

• Push your branch to GitHub:

  git push origin my-fix-branch
  

• In GitHub, send a pull request to laradock:master.

• If we suggest changes then:

  • Make the required updates.
  • Commit your changes to your branch (e.g. my-fix-branch).
  • Push the changes to your GitHub repository (this will update your Pull Request).

If the PR gets too outdated we may ask you to rebase and force push to update the PR:

git rebase master -i
git push origin my-fix-branch -f

WARNING. Squashing or reverting commits and forced push thereafter may remove GitHub comments on code that were previously made by you and others in your commits.

After your PR is merged

After your pull request is merged, you can safely delete your branch and pull the changes from the main (upstream) repository:

• Delete the remote branch on GitHub either through the GitHub web UI or your local shell as follows:

  git push origin --delete my-fix-branch
  

• Check out the master branch:

  git checkout master -f
  

• Delete the local branch:

  git branch -D my-fix-branch
  

• Update your master with the latest upstream version:

  git pull --ff upstream master
  

Happy Coding :)