Contributing to Ray

Reporting bugs and asking questions

You can post questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:

1. Github Discussions: For discussions about development, questions about usage, and feature requests.
2. GitHub Issues: For bug reports and feature requests.
3. StackOverflow

To contribute a patch:

1. Break your work into small, single-purpose patches if possible. It's much harder to merge in a large change with a lot of disjoint features.
2. Submit the patch as a GitHub pull request against the master branch.
3. Make sure that your code passes the unit tests.
4. Make sure that your code passes the linter. Run setup_hooks.sh to create a git hook that will run the linter before you push your changes.
5. Add new unit tests for your code.

PR Review Process

For contributors who are in the ray-project organization:

• When you first create a PR, add an reviewer to the assignee section.
• Assignees will review your PR and add @author-action-required label if further actions are required.
• Address their comments and remove @author-action-required label from the PR.
• Repeat this process until assignees approve your PR.
• Once the PR is approved, the author is in charge of ensuring the PR passes the build. Add test-ok label if the build succeeds.
• Committers will merge the PR once the build is passing.

For contributors who are not in the ray-project organization:

• Your PRs will have assignees shortly. Assignees or PRs will be actively engaging with contributors to merge the PR.
• Please actively ping assignees after you address your comments!