There are many ways to contribute to Quickwit. Code contributions are welcome of course, but also bug reports, feature requests, and evangelizing are as valuable.
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Please add the following phrase at the end of your commit Closes #<Issue Number>
.
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keep it open, just write See #<Issue Number>
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Feel free to send your contribution in an unfinished state to get early feedback. In that case, simply mark the PR with the tag [WIP] (standing for work in progress).
Quickwit is an open source project licensed under AGPLv3. It is also distributed under a commercial license by Quickwit, Inc.
Contributors are required to sign a Contributor License Agreement. The process is simple and fast. Upon your first pull request, you will be prompted to sign our CLA by visiting this link.
When you submit a pull request to the project, the CI system runs several verification checks. After your PR is merged, a more exhaustive list of tests will be run.
You will be notified by email from the CI system if any issues are discovered, but if you want to run these checks locally before submitting PR or in order to verify changes you can use the following commands in the root directory:
- To verify that all tests are passing, run
make test-all
. - To fix code style and format as well as catch common mistakes run
make fix
. Alternatively, runmake -k test-all docker-compose-down
to tear down the Docker services after running all the tests. - To build docs run
make build-rustdoc
.
- Install Rust, CMake, Docker (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/) and Docker Compose (https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/)
- Install node@20 and
npm install -g yarn
- Install awslocal https://github.com/localstack/awscli-local
- Install protoc https://grpc.io/docs/protoc-installation/ (you may need to install the latest binaries rather than your distro's flavor)
- Install nextest https://nexte.st/docs/installation/pre-built-binaries/
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Run make test-all
to run all tests.
make test-all
- starts necessary Docker services and runs all tests.make -k test-all docker-compose-down
- the same as above, but tears down the Docker services after running all the tests.make fmt
- runs formatter, this command requires the nightly toolchain to be installed by runningrustup toolchain install nightly
.make fix
- runs formatter and clippy checks.make typos
- runs the spellcheck tool over the codebase. (Install by runningcargo install typos-cli
)make doc
- builds docs.make docker-compose-up
- starts Docker services.make docker-compose-down
- stops Docker services.make docker-compose-logs
- shows Docker logs.
- Switch to the
quickwit
subdirectory of the project and create a data directoryqwdata
there if it doesn't exist - Start a server
cargo r run --config ../config/quickwit.yaml
yarn --cwd quickwit-ui install
andyarn --cwd quickwit-ui start
- Open your browser at
http://localhost:3000/ui
if it doesn't open automatically
- Run
yarn --cwd quickwit-ui install
andyarn --cwd quickwit-ui test
in thequickwit
directory
- Ensure to run a searcher
cargo r run --service searcher --config ../config/quickwit.yaml
- Run
yarn --cwd quickwit-ui e2e-test
- Ensure Docker and Docker Compose are correctly installed on your machine (see above)
- Run
make docker-compose-up
to launch all the services ormake docker-compose-up DOCKER_SERVICES=kafka,postgres
to launch a subset of services.
- Ensure Docker and Docker Compose are correctly installed on your machine (see above)
- Start the Jaeger services (UI, collector, agent, ...) running the command
make docker-compose-up DOCKER_SERVICES=jaeger
- Start Quickwit with the following environment variables:
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT=http://localhost:4317
QW_ENABLE_OPENTELEMETRY_OTLP_EXPORTER=true
- Open your browser and visit localhost:16686
- Install tokio-console by running
cargo install tokio-console
. - Install the quickwit binary in the quickwit-cli folder
RUSTFLAGS="--cfg tokio_unstable" cargo install --path . --features tokio-console
- Launch a long running command such as index and activate tokio with the:
QW_ENABLE_TOKIO_CONSOLE=1 quickwit index ...
- Run
tokio-console
.
Currently, we use cross to build Quickwit binaries for different architectures.
For this to work, we've had to customize the docker images cross uses. These customizations can be found in docker files located in the ./cross-images
folder. To make cross take into account any change on those
docker files, you will need to build and push the images on Docker Hub by running make cross-images
.
We also have nightly builds that are pushed to Docker Hub. This helps continuously check that our binaries are still built even with external dependency updates. Successful builds let you access the artifacts for the next three days. Release builds always have their artifacts attached to the release.
Each merge on the main
branch triggers the build of a new Docker image available on DockerHub at quickwit/quickwit:edge
. Tagging a commit also creates a new image quickwit/quickwit:<tag name>
if the tag name starts with v*
or qw*
. The Docker images are based on Debian.
As the react UI is embedded in the rust binary, we need to build the react app before building the binary. Hence make cross-image
depends on the command build-ui
.
The following Quickwit installation command curl -L https://install.quickwit.io | sh
always installs the latest stable version of quickwit. To make it easier in installing and testing new (alpha, beta, rc) releases, you can manually pull and execute the script as ./install.sh --allow-any-latest-version
. This will force the script to install any latest available release package.
Quickwit documentation is located in the docs directory.
The CLI doc page is partly generated by a script. To update it, first run the script:
cargo run --bin generate_markdown > ../docs/reference/cli_insert.md
Then manually edit the doc page to update it and delete the generated file. There are two comments to indicate where you want to insert the new docs and where it ends:
[comment]: <> (Insert auto generated CLI docs from here.)
...docs to insert...
[comment]: <> (End of auto generated CLI docs.)