From 15624c463b2dd4b9eee390afc2d47d76f9a7d12b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Finucane Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:14:05 +0100 Subject: docs: Note new requirement to include a SPDX line Add some wording around the requirement to include this line instead of the license header. Also note the requirement that all code be licensed using the 'GPL-2.0-or-later' license and add a CONTRIBUTING document, which GitHub likes. Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane Reviewed-by: Veronika Kabatova --- docs/development/contributing.rst | 21 ++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/development') diff --git a/docs/development/contributing.rst b/docs/development/contributing.rst index 7e2a72c..5089bba 100644 --- a/docs/development/contributing.rst +++ b/docs/development/contributing.rst @@ -4,13 +4,25 @@ Contributing Coding Standards ---------------- -**Follow PEP8**. All code is currently PEP8 compliant and it should stay this -way. +**Follow PEP8**. All code is currently `PEP 8`_ compliant and it should stay +this way. + +All code must be licensed using `GPL v2.0 or later`_ and must have a `SPDX +License Identifier`_ stating this. A copyright line should be included on new +files and may be added for significant changes to existing files. + +.. code-block:: python + + # Patchwork - automated patch tracking system + # Copyright (C) 2000 Jane Doe + # Copyright (C) 2001 Joe Bloggs + # + # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later Changes that fix semantic issues will be generally be happily received, but please keep such changes separate from functional changes. -`pep8` targets are provided via tox. Refer to the :ref:`testing` section +``pep8`` targets are provided via tox. Refer to the :ref:`testing` section below for more information on usage of this tool. .. _testing: @@ -148,6 +160,9 @@ announcements. Further information about the Patchwork mailing list is available can be found on `lists.ozlabs.org`_. +.. _PEP 8: https://pep8.org/ +.. _GPL v2.0 or later: https://spdx.org/licenses/GPL-2.0-or-later.html +.. _SPDX License Identifier: https://spdx.org/using-spdx-license-identifier .. _tox: https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ .. _reno: https://docs.openstack.org/developer/reno/ .. _QEMU guidelines: http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch -- cgit v1.2.3