First off, thanks for taking the time to contribute!
We welcome and appreciate all kinds of contributions. We ask that before contributing you please review the procedures for each type of contribution available in the Table of Contents. This will streamline the process for both maintainers and contributors. To find ways to contribute, view the I Want To Contribute section below. Larger contributions should open an issue before implementation to ensure changes don't go to waste.
We're excited to work with you and your contributions to scaling Ethereum!
- I Have a Question
- I Want To Contribute
- Reporting Bugs
- Suggesting Enhancements
- Your First Code Contribution
- Improving The Documentation
- Deploying on Devnet
- Tools
Note Before making an issue, please read the documentation and search the issues to see if your question has already been answered.
If you have any questions about the smart contracts, please feel free to ask them in the Optimism discord developer channels or create a new detailed issue.
Any and all bug reports on production smart contract code should be submitted privately to the Optimism team so that we can mitigate the issue before it is exploited. Please see our security policy document here.
- Read the documentation and the smart contracts themselves to see if the feature already exists.
- Perform a search in the issues to see if the enhancement has already been suggested. If it has, add a comment to the existing issue instead of opening a new one.
Enhancement suggestions are tracked as GitHub issues.
- Use a clear and descriptive title for the issue to identify the suggestion.
- Provide a step-by-step description of the suggested enhancement in as many details as possible.
- Describe the current behavior and why the intended behavior you expected to see differs. At this point you can also tell which alternatives do not work for you.
- Explain why this enhancement would be useful in Optimism's smart contracts. You may also want to point out the other projects that solved it better and which could serve as inspiration.
The best place to begin contributing is by looking through the issues with the good first issue
label. These are issues that are relatively easy to implement and are a great way to get familiar with the codebase.
Optimism's smart contracts are written in Solidity and we use foundry as our development framework. To get started, you'll need to install several dependencies:
- just
- Make sure to
just install
- foundry
- Foundry is built with rust, and this project uses a pinned version of foundry. Install the rust toolchain with
rustup
. - Make sure to install the version of foundry used by
ci-builder
, defined in theversions.json
file in the root of this repo under thefoundry
key. Once you havefoundryup
installed, there is a helper to do this:just install-foundry
- golang
- python
Our Style Guide contains information about the project structure, syntax preferences, naming conventions, and more. Please take a look at it before submitting a PR, and let us know if you spot inconsistencies!
Once you've read the style guide and are ready to work on your PR, there are a plethora of useful just
scripts to know about that will help you with development.
You can run just -l
to list them all, some of the key ones are:
just build
Builds the smart contracts.just test
Runs the fullforge
test suite. 1just gas-snapshot
Generates the gas snapshot for the smart contracts.just semver-lock
Generates the semver lockfile.just snapshots
Generates the storage and ABI snapshots.just clean
Removes all build artifacts forforge
andgo
compilations.just validate-spacers
Validates the positions of the storage slot spacers.just validate-deploy-configs
Validates the deployment configurations indeploy-config
just lint
Runs the linter on the smart contracts and scripts.just pre-pr
Runs most checks, generators, and linters prior to a PR. For most PRs, this is sufficient to pass CI if everything is in order.just pre-pr-full
Runs all checks, generators, and linters prior to a PR.
Documentation improvements are more than welcome! If you see a typo or feel that a code comment describes something poorly or incorrectly, please submit a PR with a fix.
To deploy the smart contracts on a local devnet, run make devnet-up
in the monorepo root. For more information on the local devnet, see dev-node.
In order to make sure that we don't accidentally overwrite storage slots, contract storage layouts are checked to make sure spacing is correct.
This uses the snapshots/storageLayout
directory to check contract spacing. Run just validate-spacers
to check the spacing of all contracts.
We use forge's gas-snapshot
subcommand to produce a gas snapshot for tests in Benchmark.t.sol
. CI will check that the gas snapshot has been updated properly when it runs, so make sure to run just gas-snapshot
!
Many of our smart contracts are semantically versioned. To make sure that changes are not made to a contract without deliberately bumping its version, we commit to the source code and the creation bytecode of its dependencies in a lockfile. Consult the Style Guide for more information about how our contracts are versioned.
Due to the many proxied contracts in Optimism's protocol, we automate tracking the diff to storage layouts of the contracts in the project. This is to ensure that we don't break a proxy by upgrading its implementation to a contract with a different storage layout. To generate the storage lockfile, run just snapshots
.