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diff --git a/development.md b/development.md index 09abe1e7..3b5443bc 100644 --- a/development.md +++ b/development.md @@ -33,15 +33,29 @@ Documentation for other releases can be found at # Development Guide -# Releases and Official Builds +This document is intended to be the canonical source of truth for things like +supported toolchain versions for building Kubernetes. If you find a +requirement that this doc does not capture, please file a bug. If you find +other docs with references to requirements that are not simply links to this +doc, please file a bug. + +This document is intended to be relative to the branch in which it is found. +It is guaranteed that requirements will change over time for the development +branch, but release branches of Kubernetes should not change. + +## Releases and Official Builds Official releases are built in Docker containers. Details are [here](http://releases.k8s.io/HEAD/build/README.md). You can do simple builds and development with just a local Docker installation. If want to build go locally outside of docker, please continue below. ## Go development environment -Kubernetes is written in [Go](http://golang.org) programming language. If you haven't set up Go development environment, please follow [this instruction](http://golang.org/doc/code.html) to install go tool and set up GOPATH. Ensure your version of Go is at least 1.3. +Kubernetes is written in the [Go](http://golang.org) programming language. If you haven't set up a Go development environment, please follow [these instructions](http://golang.org/doc/code.html) to install the go tools and set up a GOPATH. + +### Go versions + +Requires Go version 1.4.x or 1.5.x -## Git Setup +## Git setup Below, we outline one of the more common git workflows that core developers use. Other git workflows are also valid. |