Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end).
Before we can use your code, you must sign the Google Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which you can do online.
The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also need to be sure of various other things: for instance, that you'll tell us if you know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has approved it, but you must do it before we can accept your code into our codebase.
For larger changes, it is recommended that you first propose your idea and gather consensus on the nomulus-discuss mailing list.
All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Because GitHub is not yet the authoritative source of truth for the Nomulus codebase, pull requests are closed (not merged) upon approval, and a commit with full attribution to the author will be included in the next regular sync of code to GitHub. Owing to this mechanism, every pull request ultimately results in a single commit in the repository, so it is recommended that pull requests contain only a single commit to minimize possible merge headaches for you.
Contributions should abide by the Google Java Style
Guide. We recommend that
you use the google-java-format
utility to help you format your code (we use it ourselves). Note, please do not
send pull requests containing formatting changes to unrelated code.
Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than the one above, the Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement.