Contributors' guide needs to be updated with instructions (or pointers to instructions) about installing mage.
We currently have mage as a dependency, but don't describe how to install it.
Also need to tell users to run mage GenerateCustomBeat from the beats directory
Hi @dedemorton
I experienced the same issue when I started contributing to beats. I just started with Go and thus GOPATH and so on was not very clear. Maybe we should not only point to a direction where someone has a guide but instead, generate a little shell script that prepares your machine? Maybe also point out how to use vagrant to have a fully recreate able testing and developing environment. https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/14148
I already started an issue about the contributing guidelines and found a meta issue. I think those should be linked.
https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/14260
https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/11102
Also need to tell users to run
mage GenerateCustomBeatfrom the beats directory
I've just opened a PR to address that problem but not the requirement to add instructions for installing Mage.
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Also need to tell users to run
mage GenerateCustomBeatfrom the beats directory