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How to Contribute

We'd love to accept your patches and contributions to this project. There are just a few small guidelines you need to follow.

Filing bugs, change requests and questions

You can file bugs against, change requests for and questions about the project via github issues. Consult GitHub Help for more information on using github issues.

Community Guidelines

This project follows the following Code of Conduct.

Source Code Headers

Every file containing source code must include copyright and license information. This includes any JS/CSS files that you might be serving out to browsers. (This is to help well-intentioned people avoid accidental copying that doesn't comply with the license.)

Apache 2.0 header:

SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Contributors to the AIFES project
SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache 2.0

Signing the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

This project utilize a Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) to ensure that each commit was written by the author or that the author has the appropriate rights necessary to contribute the change. Specifically, we utilize Developer Certificate of Origin, Version 1.1, which is the same mechanism that the Linux® Kernel and many other communities use to manage code contributions. The DCO is considered one of the simplest tools for sign-offs from contributors as the representations are meant to be easy to read and indicating signoff is done as a part of the commit message.

This means that each commit must include a DCO which looks like this:

Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>

The project requires that the name used is your real name and the e-mail used is your real e-mail. Neither anonymous contributors nor those utilizing pseudonyms will be accepted.

There are other great tools out there to manage DCO signoffs for developers to make it much easier to do signoffs:

  • Git makes it easy to add this line to your commit messages. Make sure the user.name and user.email are set in your git configs. Use -s or --signoff to add the Signed-off-by line to the end of the commit message.
  • GitHub UI integrations for adding the signoff automatically to commits made with the GitHub browser UI
  • Additionally, it is possible to use shell scripting to automatically apply the sign-off. For an example for bash to be put into a .bashrc file, see here.
  • Alternatively, you can add prepare-commit-msg hook in .git/hooks directory. For an example, see here.

Code reviews

All patches and contributions, including patches and contributions by project members, require review by one of the maintainers of the project. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Consult the pull request process below and the GitHub Help for more information on using pull requests

Pull Request Process

Contributions should be submitted as Github pull requests. See Creating a pull request if you're unfamiliar with this concept.