-HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO PATCHES OpenSSL
-------------------------------------
+HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
+----------------------------
(Please visit https://www.openssl.org/community/getting-started.html for
other ideas about how to contribute.)
-Development is coordinated on the openssl-dev mailing list (see the
-above link or https://mta.openssl.org for information on subscribing).
-If you are unsure as to whether a feature will be useful for the general
-OpenSSL community you might want to discuss it on the openssl-dev mailing
-list first. Someone may be already working on the same thing or there
-may be a good reason as to why that feature isn't implemented.
+Development is done on GitHub, https://github.com/openssl/openssl.
-The best way to submit a patch is to make a pull request on GitHub.
-(It is not necessary to send mail to rt@openssl.org to open a ticket!)
-If you think the patch could use feedback from the community, please
-start a thread on openssl-dev.
+To request new features or report bugs, please open an issue on GitHub
-You can also submit patches by sending it as mail to rt@openssl.org.
-Please include the word "PATCH" and an explanation of what the patch
-does in the subject line. If you do this, our preferred format is "git
-format-patch" output. For example to provide a patch file containing the
-last commit in your local git repository use the following command:
+To submit a patch, please open a pull request on GitHub. If you are thinking
+of making a large contribution, open an issue for it before starting work,
+to get comments from the community. Someone may be already working on
+the same thing or there may be reasons why that feature isn't implemented.
- % git format-patch --stdout HEAD^ >mydiffs.patch
+To make it easier to review and accept your pull request, please follow these
+guidelines:
-Another method of creating an acceptable patch file without using git is as
-follows:
-
- % cd openssl-work
- ...make your changes...
- % ./Configure dist; make clean
- % cd ..
- % diff -ur openssl-orig openssl-work >mydiffs.patch
-
-Note that pull requests are generally easier for the team, and community, to
-work with. Pull requests benefit from all of the standard GitHub features,
-including code review tools, simpler integration, and CI build support.
-
-No matter how a patch is submitted, the following items will help make
-the acceptance and review process faster:
-
- 1. Anything other than trivial contributions will require a contributor
- licensing agreement, giving us permission to use your code. See
- https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details.
+ 1. Anything other than a trivial contribution requires a Contributor
+ License Agreement (CLA), giving us permission to use your code. See
+ https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details. If your
+ contribution is too small to require a CLA, put "CLA: trivial" on a
+ line by itself in your commit message body.
2. All source files should start with the following text (with
appropriate comment characters at the start of each line and the
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
- 3. Patches should be as current as possible. When using GitHub, please
- expect to have to rebase and update often. Note that we do not accept merge
- commits. You will be asked to remove them before a patch is considered
- acceptable.
+ 3. Patches should be as current as possible; expect to have to rebase
+ often. We do not accept merge commits, you will have to remove them
+ (usually by rebasing) before it will be acceptable.
4. Patches should follow our coding style (see
- https://www.openssl.org/policies/codingstyle.html) and compile without
- warnings. Where gcc or clang is availble you should use the
+ https://www.openssl.org/policies/codingstyle.html) and compile
+ without warnings. Where gcc or clang is available you should use the
--strict-warnings Configure option. OpenSSL compiles on many varied
- platforms: try to ensure you only use portable features.
-
- 5. When at all possible, patches should include tests. These can either be
- added to an existing test, or completely new. Please see test/README
- for information on the test framework.
-
- 6. New features or changed functionality must include documentation. Please
- look at the "pod" files in doc/apps, doc/crypto and doc/ssl for examples of
- our style.
+ platforms: try to ensure you only use portable features. Clean builds
+ via Travis and AppVeyor are required, and they are started automatically
+ whenever a PR is created or updated.
+
+ 5. When at all possible, patches should include tests. These can
+ either be added to an existing test, or completely new. Please see
+ test/README for information on the test framework.
+
+ 6. New features or changed functionality must include
+ documentation. Please look at the "pod" files in doc/man[1357] for
+ examples of our style. Run "make doc-nits" to make sure that your
+ documentation changes are clean.
+
+ 7. For user visible changes (API changes, behaviour changes, ...),
+ consider adding a note in CHANGES. This could be a summarising
+ description of the change, and could explain the grander details.
+ Have a look through existing entries for inspiration.
+ Please note that this is NOT simply a copy of git-log oneliners.
+ Also note that security fixes get an entry in CHANGES.
+ This file helps users get more in depth information of what comes
+ with a specific release without having to sift through the higher
+ noise ratio in git-log.
+
+ 8. For larger or more important user visible changes, as well as
+ security fixes, please add a line in NEWS. On exception, it might be
+ worth adding a multi-line entry (such as the entry that announces all
+ the types that became opaque with OpenSSL 1.1.0).
+ This file helps users get a very quick summary of what comes with a
+ specific release, to see if an upgrade is worth the effort.
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