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Add a file with contribution guidelines.
author Augie Fackler <raf@durin42.com>
date Sat, 23 Aug 2014 15:02:03 -0400
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1 The short version:
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2 * Patches should have a good summary line for first line of commit message
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3 * Patches should be sent to the Google Group[0]
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4 even look at those.
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5 * Patch needs to do exactly one thing
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6 * testsuite passes
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8 The longer version:
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10 We use a variant of Mercurial's own contribution
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11 system. http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ContributingChanges contains
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12 their full guidelines. Key differences are (by rule number):
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14 1. For hg-git, I'm not rigied about the "topic: a few words" format
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15 for the first line, but I do insist on a sensible summary as the
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16 first line of your commit
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17 2. We don't require use of issueNNN for bug fixes (we have no robot)
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18 3. Use the hg-git google group
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19 10. We use mostly pep8 style. The current codebase is a mess, but new
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20 code should be basically pep8.
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22 0: Pull requests are generally not noticed more than once every few
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23 months. If you do a pull request, I'm still going to expect you to
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24 have a clean history, and to be willing to rework history so it's
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25 clean before I push the "merge" button.