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-HOW TO CONTRIBUTE PATCHES TO OpenSSL
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+HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
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+----------------------------
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(Please visit https://www.openssl.org/community/getting-started.html for
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other ideas about how to contribute.)
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-Development is coordinated on the openssl-dev mailing list (see the
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-above link or https://mta.openssl.org for information on subscribing).
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-If you are unsure as to whether a feature will be useful for the general
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-OpenSSL community you might want to discuss it on the openssl-dev mailing
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-list first. Someone may be already working on the same thing or there
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-may be a good reason as to why that feature isn't implemented.
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+Development is done on GitHub, https://github.com/openssl/openssl.
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-To submit a patch, make a pull request on GitHub. If you think the patch
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-could use feedback from the community, please start a thread on openssl-dev
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-to discuss it.
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+To request new features or report bugs, please open an issue on GitHub
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-Having addressed the following items before the PR will help make the
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-acceptance and review process faster:
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+To submit a patch, please open a pull request on GitHub. If you are thinking
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+of making a large contribution, open an issue for it before starting work,
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+to get comments from the community. Someone may be already working on
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+the same thing or there may be reasons why that feature isn't implemented.
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- 1. Anything other than trivial contributions will require a contributor
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- licensing agreement, giving us permission to use your code. See
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- https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details.
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+To make it easier to review and accept your pull request, please follow these
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+guidelines:
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+
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+ 1. Anything other than a trivial contribution requires a Contributor
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+ License Agreement (CLA), giving us permission to use your code. See
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+ https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details. If your
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+ contribution is too small to require a CLA, put "CLA: trivial" on a
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+ line by itself in your commit message body.
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2. All source files should start with the following text (with
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appropriate comment characters at the start of each line and the
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@@ -34,21 +34,22 @@ acceptance and review process faster:
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https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
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3. Patches should be as current as possible; expect to have to rebase
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- often. We do not accept merge commits; You will be asked to remove
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- them before a patch is considered acceptable.
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+ often. We do not accept merge commits, you will have to remove them
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+ (usually by rebasing) before it will be acceptable.
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4. Patches should follow our coding style (see
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- https://www.openssl.org/policies/codingstyle.html) and compile without
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- warnings. Where gcc or clang is available you should use the
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+ https://www.openssl.org/policies/codingstyle.html) and compile
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+ without warnings. Where gcc or clang is available you should use the
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--strict-warnings Configure option. OpenSSL compiles on many varied
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- platforms: try to ensure you only use portable features.
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- Clean builds via Travis and AppVeyor are expected, and done whenever
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- a PR is created or updated.
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+ platforms: try to ensure you only use portable features. Clean builds
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+ via Travis and AppVeyor are required, and they are started automatically
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+ whenever a PR is created or updated.
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5. When at all possible, patches should include tests. These can
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either be added to an existing test, or completely new. Please see
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test/README for information on the test framework.
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6. New features or changed functionality must include
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- documentation. Please look at the "pod" files in doc/man[1357]
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- for examples of our style.
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+ documentation. Please look at the "pod" files in doc/man[1357] for
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+ examples of our style. Run "make doc-nits" to make sure that your
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+ documentation changes are clean.
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