All osquery development occurs in feature branches and all contributions occur via GitHub Pull Requests. All code must be reviewed, even if it's written by members of the core team, so following the code review process is critical to successful osquery development.
In order to accept your pull request, we need you to submit a CLA. You only need to do this once to work on any of Facebook's open source projects.
Complete your CLA here: https://code.facebook.com/cla
By contributing to osquery, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under both the LICENSE file and the COPYING file in the root directory of this source tree.
Please do all of your development in a feature branch, on your own fork of osquery. You should clone osquery normally, like this:
git clone git@github.com:facebook/osquery.git
Then, your "remote" should be set up as follows:
$ cd osquery
$ git remote -v
origin git@github.com:facebook/osquery.git (fetch)
origin git@gitHub.com:facebook/osquery.git (push)
Now, use the GitHub UI to fork osquery to your personal GitHub organization. Then, add the remote URL of your fork to git's local remotes:
$ git remote add $USER git@github.com:$USER/osquery.git
Now, your "remote" should be set up as follows:
$ git remote -v
marpaia git@github.com:marpaiagitaia/osquery.git (fetch)
marpaia git@github.com:marpaia/osquery.git (push)
origin git@github.com:facebook/osquery.git (fetch)
origin git@gitHub.com:facebook/osquery.git (push)
When you're ready to start working on a new feature, create a new branch:
$ git checkout -b my-feature
Write your code and when you're ready to put up a Pull Request, push your local branch to your fork:
$ git add .
$ git commit -m "my awesome feature!"
$ git push -u $USER my-feature
Visit https://github.com/facebook/osquery and use the web UI to create a Pull Request. Once your pull request has gone through sufficient review and iteration, please squash all of your commits into one commit.
In most cases your PR should represent a single body of work. It is fine to change unrelated small-things like nits or code-format issues but make every effort to submit isolated changes. This makes documentation, references, regression tracking and if needed, a revert, easier.
Pull requests will often need revision, most likely after the required code review from the friendly core development team. :D
Please feel free to add several commits to your Pull Request. When it comes time to merge into master all commits in a Pull Request will be squashed using GitHub's tooling into a single commit. The development team will usually choose to remove the commit body and keep the GitHub-appended (#PR) number in the commit title.
You make updates to your pull request
If the pull request needs changes, or you decide to update the content, consider 'amending' your previous commit:
$ git commit --amend
Like squashing, this changes the branch history so you'll need to force push the changes to update the pull request:
$ git push -f
In all cases, if the pull request is triggering automatic build/integration tests, the tests will rerun reflecting your changes.
Once you submit your pull request, link the GitHub issue which your Pull Request implements. To do this, if the relevant issue is #7, then simply type "#7" somewhere in the Pull Request description or comments. This links the Pull Request with the issue, which makes things easier to track down later on.
To facilitate development, osquery developers adhere to a particular label workflow. The core development team will assign labels as appropriate.
Pull Requests are a great way to track the on-going development of an existing feature. For this reason, if you create a Pull Request and it's not ready for review just yet, attach the "in progress" label. If the Pull Request is ready for review, attach the "ready for review" label. Once the "ready for review" label has been applied, a member of the osquery core team will review your Pull Request.
Are you creating a new osquery table? Attach the virtual tables label.
Are you in some way altering build/test infrastructure? Attach the build/test infrastructure label.
Are you fixing a memory leak? Attach the memory leak label.
The pattern here should be pretty obvious. Please put the appropriate effort into attaching the appropriate labels to your Pull Request.
All code that you submit to osquery should include automated tests. See the unit testing guide for instructions on how to create tests.
osquery runs in the context of long running processes. It's critical that there are no memory leaks in osquery code. All code should be thoroughly tested for leaks. See the memory leak testing guide for more information on how to test your code for memory leaks.
When you submit a Pull Request, please consider including the output of a valgrind analysis.
If you think that shelling out and executing a bash command is a good idea, it's not.
If you want to call a system executable or call system libraries via a tool, use the underlying C/C++ APIs that the tool uses to implement your functionality. Several tables (kextstat, processes, nvram, last, etc) were created by dissecting core systems tools and using the underlying APIs.
It's worth noting that you should exercise caution when copying code of any kind, especially core systems tools. Often times, core utilities developers recognize that their software will only be executed in the context of short-lived processes. For this reason, there are often memory leaks in the default behavior of these utilities. Put care into ensuring that you don't unknowingly introduce memory leaks into osquery.
In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment include:
- Using welcoming and inclusive language
- Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
- Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
- Focusing on what is best for the community
- Showing empathy towards other community members
Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
- The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
- Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
- Public or private harassment
- Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
- Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.
This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the project team at osquery@fb.com. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other members of the project's leadership.
This Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.4, available at http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4.