This page contains information about reporting issues, how to suggest changes as well as the guidelines we follow for how our documents are formatted.
To report an issue, or to suggest an idea for a change that you haven't had time to write-up yet, open an issue. It is best to check our existing issues first to see if a similar one has already been opened and discussed.
To suggest a change to this repository, submit a pull request(PR) with the complete set of changes you'd like to see. See the Spec Formatting Conventions section for the guidelines we follow for how documents are formatted.
Each PR must be signed per the following section.
If you want to own and work on an issue, add a comment or “#dibs” it asking
about ownership. A maintainer will then add the Assigned label and modify the
first comment in the issue to include Assigned to: @person
The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the below (from developercertificate.org):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:
(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
have the right to submit it under the open source license
indicated in the file; or
(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
license and I have the right under that license to submit that
work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
in the file; or
(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
it.
(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
this project or the open source license(s) involved.
Then you just add a line to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
If you set your user.name and user.email git configs, you can sign your
commit automatically with git commit -s.
Note: If your git config information is set properly then viewing the git log
information for your commit will look something like this:
Author: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 2 11:41:15 2018 -0800
Update README
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
Notice the Author and Signed-off-by lines match. If they don't your PR will
be rejected by the automated DCO check.
Documents in this repository will adhere to the following rules:
- Lines are wrapped at 80 columns (when possible)
- Specifications will use RFC2119 keywords to indicate normative requirements