On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 02:37:18AM +0200, Robert Foss wrote:
Some basic guidelines for contributions could come in handy.
These are copied from IGT and modified to be suitable.
Signed-off-by: Robert Foss robert.foss@collabora.com
CONTRIBUTING | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1b4775 --- /dev/null +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +Patches to drm_hwcomposer are very much welcome, we really want this to be the +universal HW composer implementation for Android and similar platforms +So please bring on porting patches, bugfixes, improvements for documentation +and new features.
+A short list of contribution guidelines:
+- Please submit patches formatted with git send-email/git format-patch or
- equivalent to
- dri-devel dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
- Please use --subject-prefix="PATCH hwc" so that drm_hwcomposer patches are easily
- identified in the massive amount mails on dri-devel. To ensure this is always
- done, run:
- git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH hwc"
+- drm_hwcomposer is Apache 2.0 Licensed and we require contributions to follow the
- developer's certificate of origin: http://developercertificate.org/
+- When submitting new code please follow the naming conventions documented
- in the generated documentation. Also please make full use of all the helpers and
- convenience macros provided by drm_hwcomposer. The below command can help you
- with formatting of your patches:
- git diff | clang-format-diff-3.5 -p 1 -style=file
+- Harware specific changes should get tested on relevant platforms
*Hardware
With that,
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul seanpaul@chromium.org
- before committing.
+Happy hacking!
2.11.0