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Contributing to Genode
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You can contribute to the development of Genode in many different ways. First,
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you can contribute by trying out the framework and sharing your expectations
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and experience with us. This will help us to adjust the goals of the project
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according to the needs of its users. Please do not hesitate to discuss your
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ideas or suggestion at our mailing list. Maybe you stumbled over an issue that
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should be documented but isn't? Or the documentation contains errors with
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regard to content or spelling? Please let us know by raising the issue at the
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genode-main mailing list:
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:[https://genode.org/community/mailing-lists - Genode mailing lists]:
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If you are interested in getting your hands dirty with working on the Genode
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code base or authoring additional documentation, you are more than welcome.
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For getting a rough overview of the current topics the Genode developers are
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pondering over, please have a look at the issue tracker:
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:[https://github.com/genodelabs/genode/issues - Issue tracker]:
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You will see that the issues cover a large spectre ranging from minor fixes,
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over new features, to architectural changes. To pick the topic that suits
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you best, please consider introducing your intentions to the mailing list.
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We will gladly assist you with picking a topic to get you started.
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Alternatively, you may like to have a look at our road map and future
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challenges to see the big picture of our developments and to get inspiration
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for your own activities:
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:[https://genode.org/about/road-map]: Road Map
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:[https://genode.org/about/challenges]: Future Challenges
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Once you settled on a specific topic to work on, it is a good idea to get
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acquainted with the work flow and tools used by the project. The following
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sections are meant as a rough guide for working with Genode's mainline source
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tree in practice.
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Clone the repository
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The complete source code for both the Genode OS Framework and its documentation
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is managed via the project's public Git repository:
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:[https://github.com/genodelabs - Genode Repository at GitHub]:
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Also, most of the content of the genode.org website can be found in the form
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of plain text file within the repository.
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If you intend to contribute changes to the mainline development, we
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recommend you to fork the Genode repository on GitHub. This will make it
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easy for everyone to track your activities, comment on your work.
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Create a topic branch
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As a rule of thumb, every line of development should have a corresponding
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issue in the issue tracker. This will be the place where we will discuss
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your ongoing work. If there is no issue for your topic, please
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create one. Once there exists the issue with a short description about
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what your line of work is about, create a new topic branch based on the
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'genodelabs/master' branch. For example,
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! git checkout -b issue76
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Work on your branch in the way you prefer. A long-winded history on your branch
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is not a problem because it will stay local to your repository. However, if you
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invest your time in maintaining a clean history, this is much appreciated.
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Follow Genode's coding conventions
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Genode's source code follows certain time-tested conventions regarding the
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coding style and code pattern, which are important to us. The coding style
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is described in the following document:
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:[https://genode.org/documentation/developer-resources/coding_style]:
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Coding Style Guidelines
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We know from experience that for new developers, adhering the coding style can
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be distracting and even annoying at times. To relieve you from keeping all
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those rules in your head, there is a tool for checking your code against the
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guidelines. The *beautify tool* is located at 'tool/beautify'. When invoked
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with no arguments, it will provide you with brief usage instructions.
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Writing a commit message
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* Use the first line to summarize your commit using not more than 50 characters.
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This line will be displayed by various tools. So it should express the basic
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topic and eventually refer to an issue. For example:
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! Add sanity checks in 'tool/tool_chain', fix #62
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* If the patch refers to an existing issue, add a reference to the
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corresponding issue. If not, please consider opening an issue first. In the
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case the patch is supposed to close an existing issue, add this information
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using GitHub's conventions, e.g., by stating "fix #45" in your commit
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message, the issue will be closed automatically, by stating "ref #45', the
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commit will be displayed in the stream of discussion of the corresponding
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issue.
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* After a blank line, add a description of the patch. For writing the
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description, keep the following questions in mind:
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* Why is the patch needed?
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* How does the patch achieve the goal?
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* What are known consequences of this patch? Will it break API compatibility,
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or produce a follow-up issue?
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The description should use a line with of about 75 characters. It may consist
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of multiple paragraphs separated by blank lines.
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* Proof-read your commit message for spelling or grammatical errors.
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* Reconsider the documentation related to your patch: If the commit message
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contains important information not present in the form of source-code
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comments, this information should better placed into the code or the
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accompanied documentation (e.g., in the form of a README file).
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Genode Contributors Agreement
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Before we will be able to incorporate your changes into Genode's mainline
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development, we require your permission to use your code.
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Genode is publicly licensed under the terms of the GNU AGPLv3 with Genode Labs
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maintaining the right to also distribute derivates under different licenses or
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update the public License.
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Contributions from outside Genode Labs can only be incorporated into Genode's
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mainline development if each individual contributor explicitly grants the
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permission to let Genode Labs redistribute his contributions under non-AGPLv3
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licenses. This permission is granted by signing the Genode Contributors
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Agreement:
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:[https://genode.org/community/gca.pdf - Genode Contributor's Agreement]:
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Genode Contributor's Agreement (GCA)
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By signing the GCA, you don't lose any rights for your contribution. However,
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you enable Genode Labs to license Genode (including your contributions) under
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licenses other than the AGPLv3. The GCA needs to be signed only once. The signed
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GCA covers your future contributions. Of course, you may cancel this agreement
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at your will. Please make sure that you are in the legal position to sign
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the GCA (i.e., by making sure that your contribution to Genode is in line with
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the Open-Source policy of your employer).
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Send a signed copy of the GCA to Genode Labs. The postal address
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is *Genode Labs GmbH, Dammweg 2, D-01097 Dresden, Germany*.
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Alternatively, you may send a scanned copy of the signed GCA via email
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to *licensing@genode-labs.com*.
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Incorporating your work into the mainline source tree
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Our goal with the 'genodelabs/master' branch is to keep the history as linear
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as possible to make it easy for users of the framework to track the
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development.
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To help us with accomplishing this goal, please make sure that your patch
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applies cleanly to 'genodelabs/master'.
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For the continuous work on your private topic branch, please feel free to
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commit as you like. For example, your commit sequence could look like:
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! "Implemented A"
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! "Discarded a part of A because it was a bad idea"
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! "Fixed spelling in comment"
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If your history contains intermediate steps that are not meaningful to have in
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'genodelabs/master', you may decide to clean up your history via 'git rebase -i'.
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Ideally, each revision should represent a consistent state of your work that
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should (at least) build without errors. The refined history will then end up in
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the form of just a few commits. For the example above, all three commits should
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be merged into a single commit "Feature A" as the intermediate (and potentially
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bugged) revisions are not useful to have in 'genodelabs/main'.
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Important notice
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Please do not take the steps described herein too seriously. They are not
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carved in stone. If you have suggestions for improving them, or if you feel
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staggered by all those rules, please let us know.
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