Adding new features, improving documentation, fixing bugs, writing new tests, designing and coding new examples or writing tutorials are all examples of helpful contributions.
A contribution to HElib can be initiated through GitHub pull request (PR).
HElib is written in C++17 and uses clang-format for the formatting of the code.
Requirements and installation instructions can be found in INSTALL.md.
When making code contributions to HElib, we ask that you follow the C++17
coding standard and format your code using the clang format
style file included in this distribution. Please provide unit/regression
tests that are relevant to your code contribution.
This project uses Developer Certificate of Origin DCO.
Be sure to sign off your commits using the -s flag or adding Signed-off-By: Name<Email> in the commit message.
git commit -s -m 'Informative commit message'Whether you are contributing a new feature, updating or bug fixing the code elsewhere, you need to ensure that your HElib build passes the regression test suite.
HElib test suite uses the Google Test Framework. Additional information on HElib's test suite can be found in TESTS.md. Please remember to provide unit/regression tests that are relevant to your code contribution.
Once all the tests have passed, and you are satisfied with your contribution, open a pull request into the master branch from your fork of the repository to request adding your contributions into the main code base.