Welcome! We are glad that you want to contribute to our CloudNativePG project! 💖
As you get started, you are in the best position to give us feedbacks on areas of our project that we need help with, including:
- Problems found while setting up the development environment
- Gaps in our documentation
- Bugs in our Github actions
- Promotion of PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with our operator
First, though, it is important that you read the code of conduct.
The guidelines below are a starting point. We don't want to limit your creativity, passion, and initiative. If you think there's a better way, please feel free to bring it up in a Github discussion, or open a pull request. We're certain there are always better ways to do things, we just need to start some constructive dialogue!
We welcome many types of contributions including:
- New features
- Builds, CI/CD
- Bug fixes
- Documentation
- Issue Triage
- Answering questions on Slack or Github Discussions
- Web design
- Communications / Social Media / Blog Posts
- Events participation
- Release management
For development contributions, please refer to the separate section called "Contributing to the source code".
The best way to reach us with a question when contributing is to drop a line in our Slack channel, or start a new Github discussion.
When raising issues, please specify the following:
- Setup details as specified in the issue template
- A scenario where the issue occurred (with details on how to reproduce it)
- Errors and log messages that are displayed by the involved software
- Any other detail that might be useful
If you are trying to report a vulnerability, please refer to the security policy.
We extend a warm welcome to everyone to join any of our meetings. For further details, please visit the CloudNativePG Community Meetings page.