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| 1 | +============== |
| 2 | + Contributing |
| 3 | +============== |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +We welcome community contributions. You can: |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +* Submit your changes directly with a pull request |
| 8 | +* Log a bug or feedback with an issue |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Pull requests |
| 11 | +============= |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +This project follows the GitHub flow. Make sure your change is in line |
| 14 | +with our coding conventions. Submit a pull request to the master |
| 15 | +branch. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +License |
| 18 | +======= |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +See licenses_ for license information. By contributing to the |
| 21 | +project, you agree to the license and copyright terms therein and |
| 22 | +release your contribution under these terms. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +Sign your work |
| 25 | +============== |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +Please use the sign-off line at the end of the patch. Your signature |
| 28 | +certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise have the right to pass |
| 29 | +it on as an open-source patch. The rules are pretty simple: if you can |
| 30 | +certify `Linux Foundation Developer Certification of Origin`_ below:: |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | + Developer Certificate of Origin Version 1.1 |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | + Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors. |
| 35 | + 660 York Street, Suite 102, |
| 36 | + San Francisco, CA 94110 USA |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this |
| 39 | + license document, but changing it is not allowed. |
| 40 | + |
| 41 | + Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1 |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | + By making a contribution to this project, I certify that: |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + (a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I |
| 46 | + have the right to submit it under the open source license |
| 47 | + indicated in the file; or |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best |
| 50 | + of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source |
| 51 | + license and I have the right under that license to submit that |
| 52 | + work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by |
| 53 | + me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to |
| 54 | + submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | + (c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other |
| 57 | + person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | + (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution |
| 60 | + are public and that a record of the contribution (including all |
| 61 | + personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is |
| 62 | + maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with |
| 63 | + this project or the open source license(s) involved. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +Then you just add a line to every git commit message:: |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | + Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]> |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.) |
| 70 | +If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your |
| 71 | +commit automatically with git commit -s. |
| 72 | + |
| 73 | +.. _licenses: LICENSES |
| 74 | +.. _`Linux Foundation Developer Certification of Origin`: https://developercertificate.org/ |
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