dr.botzo/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing Guidelines

This is a pretty fun, non-serious hacking project, so if you're interested in contributing, sign up, clone the project, and submit some merge requests! There's a lot to add and work on, so join in.

dr.botzo is made available under the GPLv3 license. Contributions are welcome via pull requests. This document outlines the process to get your contribution accepted.

Code Style

4 spaces per indent level. 120 character line length. Follow PEP8 as closely as reasonable. There's a prospector config, use it.

Sign Offs/Custody of Contributions

I do not request the copyright of contributions be assigned to me or to the project, and I require no provision that I be allowed to relicense your contributions. My personal oath is to maintain inbound=outbound in my open source projects, and the expectation is authors are responsible for their contributions.

I am following the the Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO), also available at DCO.txt. The DCO is a way for contributors to certify that they wrote or otherwise have the right to license their code contributions to the project. Contributors must sign-off that they adhere to these requirements by adding a Signed-off-by line to their commit message, and/or, for frequent contributors, by signing off on their entry in MAINTAINERS.md.

This process is followed by a number of open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. Here's the gist of it:

[Your normal Git commit message here.]

Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>

git help commit has more info on adding this:

-s, --signoff
    Add Signed-off-by line by the committer at the end of the commit log
    message. The meaning of a signoff depends on the project, but it typically
    certifies that committer has the rights to submit this work under the same
    license and agrees to a Developer Certificate of Origin (see
    http://developercertificate.org/ for more information).