Contributing
July 21, 2026 ยท View on GitHub
Overview
This documents explains the processes and practices recommended for contributing enhancements to this operator.
- Generally, before developing enhancements to this charm, you should consider opening an issue explaining your use case.
- If you would like to chat with us about your use-cases or proposed implementation, you can reach us at Discourse.
- Familiarising yourself with the Charmed Operator Framework library will help you a lot when working on new features or bug fixes.
- All enhancements require review before being merged. Code review typically
examines
- code quality
- test coverage
- user experience for Juju administrators this charm.
- Please help us out in ensuring easy to review branches by rebasing your pull
request branch onto the
mainbranch. This also avoids merge commits and creates a linear Git commit history.
Developing
To set up a local development environment with all required dependencies, tools, and pre-commit configurations, you can use uv:
uv sync --group dev
source .venv/bin/activate
Testing
tox -e fmt # update your code according to linting rules
tox -e lint # code style
tox -e unit # unit tests
tox -e integration # integration tests
tox #runs 'fmt', 'lint', and 'unit' environments
Building
Build the charm using:
charmcraft pack
Deploying
# Create a model
juju add-model dev
# Enable DEBUG logging
juju model-config logging-config="<root>=INFO;unit=DEBUG"
# Deploy the charm
juju deploy ./openfga-k8s_ubuntu-22.04-amd64.charm