Commit 6ca83665 by Martin Woodward

Update contributing guidance to explain PR flow

Updating the contributing guidance to explain a bit more about how we use
PR's
parent 3e3d332b
......@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Please include a nice description of your changes with your PR; if we have
to read the whole diff to figure out why you're contributing in the first
place, you're less likely to get feedback and have your change merged in.
If you are working on a particular area then feel free to submit a PR that
highlights your work in progress (and flag in the PR title that it's not
ready to merge). This will help in getting visibility for your fix, allow
others to comment early on the changes and also let others know that you
are currently working on something.
## Porting Code From Other Open-Source Projects
`libgit2` is licensed under the terms of the GPL v2 with a linking
......@@ -57,14 +63,17 @@ The most common case is porting code from core Git. Git is a pure GPL
project, which means that in order to port code to this project, we need the
explicit permission of the author. Check the
[`git.git-authors`](https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/blob/development/git.git-authors)
file for authors who have already consented; feel free to add someone if
you've obtained their consent.
file for authors who have already consented.
Other licenses have other requirements; check the license of the library
you're porting code *from* to see what you need to do. As a general rule,
MIT and BSD (3-clause) licenses are typically no problem. Apache 2.0
license typically doesn't work due to GPL incompatibility.
If you are pulling in code from core Git, another project or code you've pulled from
a forum / Stack Overflow then please flag this in your PR and also make sure you've
given proper credit to the original author in the code snippet.
## Style Guide
`libgit2` is written in [ANSI C](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C)
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