the-bastion/CONTRIBUTING.md

Contributing to The Bastion

This project accepts contributions. In order to contribute, you should pay attention to a few things:

1. your code must follow the The Bastion design choices, see DESIGN.md
2. your code must follow the coding style rules
3. your code must be added to the unit and/or integration tests where applicable
4. your code must be documented
5. your work must be signed (see below)
6. you may contribute through GitHub Pull Requests

Coding and documentation Style for source code

• All languages
  • Code must be indented with 4-spaces, no tabs. Vim modelines are present in all source files, so if you use vim, you should be good to go
• Perl
  • Code must be tidy (see bin/dev/perl-tidy.sh)
  • Code must not raise any perlcritic warning (see bin/dev/perl-critic.sh)
  • One must refrain using any non-core Perl module (check corelist)
    • If not possible, the module should be packaged at least under Debian, all supported versions, and available at least in trusted third party repositories on other supported OSes. No cpan install.
• POSIX shell and Bash
  • Code must not raise any shellcheck warning (see bin/dev/shell-check.sh)

Submitting Modifications

The contributions should be submitted through Github Pull Requests and follow the DCO which is defined below.

Licensing for new files

The Bastion is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Anything contributed to The Bastion must be released under this license.

When introducing a new file into the project, please make sure it has a copyright header making clear under which license it's being released.

Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

To improve tracking of contributions to this project we will use a process modeled on the modified DCO 1.1 and use a "sign-off" procedure on patches that are being emailed around or contributed in any other way.

The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it 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:

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) The contribution is made free of any other party's intellectual property claims or rights.

(e) 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 saying

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

using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)