🎈 Thanks for your help improving the project! We are so happy to have you!
No contribution is too small and all contributions are valued.
There are plenty of ways to contribute, in particular we appreciate support in the following areas:
- Reporting issues. For security issues see Security policy.
- Fixing and responding to existing issues. You can start off with those tagged "good first issue" which are meant as introductory issues for external contributors.
- Improving the community site, documentation and tutorials.
- Become an "Optimizer" and answer questions in the Optimism Discord.
- Get involved in the protocol design process by proposing changes or new features or write parts of the spec yourself in the specs subdirectory.
Note that we have a Code of Conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.
🚨 Before making any non-trivial change, please first open an issue describing the change to solicit feedback and guidance. This will increase the likelihood of the PR getting merged.
In general, the smaller the diff the easier it will be for us to review quickly.
In order to contribute, fork the appropriate branch, for non-breaking changes to production that is develop
and for the next release that is normally release/X.X.X
branch, see details about our branching model.
Additionally, if you are writing a new feature, please ensure you add appropriate test cases.
Follow the Development Quick Start to set up your local development environment.
We recommend using the Conventional Commits format on commit messages.
Unless your PR is ready for immediate review and merging, please mark it as 'draft' (or simply do not open a PR yet).
Once ready for review, make sure to include a thorough PR description to help reviewers. You can read more about the guidelines for opening PRs in the PR Guidelines file.
Bonus: Add comments to the diff under the "Files Changed" tab on the PR page to clarify any sections where you think we might have questions about the approach taken.
We aim to provide a meaningful response to all PRs and issues from external contributors within 2 business days.
We use the git rebase
command to keep our commit history tidy.
Rebasing is an easy way to make sure that each PR includes a series of clean commits with descriptive commit messages
See this tutorial for a detailed explanation of git rebase
and how you should use it to maintain a clean commit history.
You'll need the following:
Clone the repository and open it:
git clone git@github.com:ethereum-optimism/optimism.git
cd optimism
Install the correct node version with nvm
nvm use
pnpm i
foundry is used for some smart contract development in the monorepo. It is required to build the TypeScript packages and compile the smart contracts. Install foundry here.
To build all of the TypeScript packages, run:
pnpm clean
pnpm install
pnpm build
Packages compiled when on one branch may not be compatible with packages on a different branch. You should recompile all packages whenever you move from one branch to another. Use the above commands to recompile the packages.
If you want to run an Optimism node OR if you want to run the integration tests, you'll need to build the rest of the system. Note that these environment variables significantly speed up build time.
cd ops-bedrock
export COMPOSE_DOCKER_CLI_BUILD=1
export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
docker compose build
Source code changes can have an impact on more than one container. If you're unsure about which containers to rebuild, just rebuild them all:
cd ops-bedrock
docker compose down
docker compose build
docker compose up
If a node process exits with exit code: 137 you may need to increase the default memory limit of docker containers
Finally, if you're running into weird problems and nothing seems to be working, run:
cd optimism
pnpm clean
pnpm install
pnpm build
cd ops
docker compose down -v
docker compose build
docker compose up
By default, the docker compose up
command will show logs from all services, and that
can be hard to filter through. In order to view the logs from a specific service, you can run:
docker compose logs --follow <service name>
Before running tests: follow the above instructions to get everything built.
Run unit tests for all packages in parallel via:
pnpm test
To run unit tests for a specific package:
cd packages/package-to-test
pnpm test
Change directory to the package you want to run tests for. Then:
go test ./...
See this document
We perform static analysis with slither
.
You must have Python 3.x installed to run slither
.
To run slither
locally, do:
cd packages/contracts-bedrock
pip3 install slither-analyzer
pnpm slither
Labels are divided into categories with their descriptions annotated as <Category Name>: <description>
.
The following are a comprehensive list of label categories.
- Area labels (
A-
): Denote the general area for the related issue or PR changes. - Category labels (
C-
): Contextualize the type of issue or change. - Meta labels (
M-
): These add context to the issues or prs themselves primarily relating to process. - Difficulty labels (
D-
): Describe the associated implementation's difficulty level. - Status labels (
S-
): Specify the status of an issue or pr.
Labels also provide a versatile filter for finding tickets that need help or are open for assignment. This makes them a great tool for contributors!
To find tickets available for external contribution, take a look at the https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/labels/M-community label.
You can filter by the https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/optimism/labels/D-good-first-issue label to find issues that are intended to be easy to implement or fix.
Also, all labels can be seen by visiting the labels page
When altering label names or deleting labels there are a few things you must be aware of.
- This may affect the mergify bot's use of labels. See the mergify config.
- If the https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/labels/S-stale label is altered, the close-stale workflow should be updated.
- If the https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/labels/M-dependabot label is altered, the dependabot config file should be adjusted.
- Saved label filters for project boards will not automatically update. These should be updated if label names change.