Developer Guidelines

minio-go welcomes your contribution. To make the process as seamless as possible, we ask for the following:

• Go ahead and fork the project and make your changes. We encourage pull requests to discuss code changes.

  • Fork it
  • Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  • Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  • Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  • Create new Pull Request

• When you're ready to create a pull request, be sure to:

  • Have test cases for the new code. If you have questions about how to do it, please ask in your pull request.
  • Run go fmt
  • Squash your commits into a single commit. git rebase -i. It's okay to force update your pull request.
  • Make sure go test -race ./... and go build completes. NOTE: go test runs functional tests and requires you to have a AWS S3 account. Set them as environment variables ACCESS_KEY and SECRET_KEY. To run shorter version of the tests please use go test -short -race ./...

• Read Effective Go article from Golang project

  • minio-go project is strictly conformant with Golang style
  • if you happen to observe offending code, please feel free to send a pull request