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We warmly welcome external contributions to the ROOT! By providing code, you agree to transfer your copyright on the code to the "ROOT project". Of course you will be duly credited and your name will appear on the contributors page and in the CREDITS file shipped with every binary and source distribution. The copyright transfer is necessary for us to be able to effectively defend the project in case of litigation.
Presently, there are two ways in which you can contribute:
The Users' Forum has a section which describes how to submit contributions. It is the easiest way to make your code known to the community, even if it will not be automatically integrated in ROOT. Of course the most successful contributions will become part of the repository!
You can send us a patch or a pull request with Github, provided that you follow these two simple rules:
- Make sure you follow the [ROOT coding conventions]({{ "coding_conventions" | relative_url }}) in your code
- Make sure you provide a set of tests for your feature/bug fix
Often it is useful to contact us first to discuss the code you want to develop or the bug you want to fix.
We maintain a set of "ideas" for talented scientists and developers to pick up. An "idea" is a sketch of a development project, a functionality a missing feature we would like to see in our tool, in your ROOT! You can inspect the ideas in the following list.
30-01-2019 Transform GNU-makefile tests to CMake
ROOT's test suite has several crucial tests that still try on GNU-Makefile. We need to integrate them with CMake.
30-01-2019 Better argument parsing
Use a C++ command line argument library for defining and parsing ROOT's options.
30-01-2019 More tests, more benchmarks!
ROOT relies on testing, including performance testing - and we need to improve both.
A tool to 'warn' user of inefficient (for I/O) construct in data model
Interface the ROOT I/O to key/value stores.
Create a unix-like set of Python command line tools to explore, modify and display the content of ROOT files. Subscribe to Collaborate With Us