syncthing/CONTRIBUTING.md

Reporting Bugs

Please file bugs in the Github Issue Tracker.

Contributing Code

Every contribution is welcome. Following the points below will make this a smoother process.

Individuals making significant and valuable contributions are given commit-access to the project. If you make a significant contribution and are not considered for commit-access, please contact any of the Syncthing core team members.

All nontrivial contributions should go through the pull request mechanism for internal review. Determining what is "nontrivial" is left at the discretion of the contributor.

Authorship

All code authors are listed in the AUTHORS file. Commits must be made with the same name and email as listed in the AUTHORS file. To accomplish this, ensure that your git configuration is set correctly prior to making your first commit;

$ git config --global user.name "Jane Doe"
$ git config --global user.email janedoe@example.com

You must be reachable on the given email address. If you do not wish to use your real name for whatever reason, using a nickname or pseudonym is perfectly acceptable.

Coding Style

• Follow the conventions laid out in Effective Go as much as makes sense.

• All text files use Unix line endings.

• Each commit should be go fmt clean.

• The commit message subject should be a single short sentence describing the change, starting with a capital letter.

• Commits that resolve an existing issue must include the issue number as (fixes #123) at the end of the commit message subject.

• Imports are grouped per goimports standard; that is, standard library first, then third party libraries after a blank line.

• A contribution solving a single issue or introducing a single new feature should probably be a single commit based on the current master branch. You may be asked to "rebase" or "squash" your pull request to make sure this is the case, especially if there have been amendments during review.

Licensing

All contributions are made under the same GPL license as the rest of the project, except documentation, user interface text and translation strings which are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. You retain the copyright to code you have written.

When accepting your first contribution, the maintainer of the project will ensure that you are added to the AUTHORS file. You are welcome to add yourself as a separate commit in your first pull request.

Tests

Yes please!

License

GPLv3