We welcome contributions from the community. Please read the following guidelines carefully to maximize the chances of your PR being merged.
To ensure your change passes format checks, run make precommit and ensure all checks pass.
We require DCO signoff line in every commit to this repo.
The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the statement in developercertificate.org then you just add a line to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
You can add the sign off when creating the git commit via git commit -s.
- The pull request title should describe what the change does and not embed issue numbers. The pull request should only be blank when the change is minor. Any feature should include a description of the change and what motivated it. If the change or design changes through review, please keep the title and description updated accordingly.
- A single approval is sufficient to merge. If a reviewer asks for changes in a PR they should be addressed before the PR is merged, even if another reviewer has already approved the PR.
- During the review, address the comments and commit the changes without squashing the commits. This facilitates incremental reviews since the reviewer does not go through all the code again to find out what has changed since the last review. When a change goes out of sync with main, please rebase and force push, keeping the original commits where practical.
- Commits are squashed prior to merging a pull request, using the title and PR description as commit message by default. Maintainers may request contributors to edit the pull request title and description to ensure that it remains descriptive as a commit message. Alternatively, maintainers may change the commit message directly at the time of merge.