1 HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO OpenSSL
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4 (Please visit https://www.openssl.org/community/getting-started.html for
5 other ideas about how to contribute.)
7 Development is done on GitHub, https://github.com/openssl/openssl.
9 To request new features or report bugs, please open an issue on GitHub
11 To submit a patch, please open a pull request on GitHub. If you are thinking
12 of making a large contribution, open an issue for it before starting work,
13 to get comments from the community. Someone may be already working on
14 the same thing or there may be reasons why that feature isn't implemented.
16 To make it easier to review and accept your pull request, please follow these
19 1. Anything other than a trivial contribution requires a Contributor
20 License Agreement (CLA), giving us permission to use your code. See
21 https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details. If your
22 contribution is too small to require a CLA, put "CLA: trivial" on a
23 line by itself in your commit message body.
25 2. All source files should start with the following text (with
26 appropriate comment characters at the start of each line and the
29 Copyright 20xx-20yy The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.
31 Licensed under the Apache License 2.0 (the "License"). You may not use
32 this file except in compliance with the License. You can obtain a copy
33 in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
34 https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html
36 3. Patches should be as current as possible; expect to have to rebase
37 often. We do not accept merge commits, you will have to remove them
38 (usually by rebasing) before it will be acceptable.
40 4. Patches should follow our coding style (see
41 https://www.openssl.org/policies/codingstyle.html) and compile
42 without warnings. Where gcc or clang is available you should use the
43 --strict-warnings Configure option. OpenSSL compiles on many varied
44 platforms: try to ensure you only use portable features. Clean builds
45 via Travis and AppVeyor are required, and they are started automatically
46 whenever a PR is created or updated.
48 5. When at all possible, patches should include tests. These can
49 either be added to an existing test, or completely new. Please see
50 test/README for information on the test framework.
52 6. New features or changed functionality must include
53 documentation. Please look at the "pod" files in doc/man[1357] for
54 examples of our style. Run "make doc-nits" to make sure that your
55 documentation changes are clean.
57 7. For user visible changes (API changes, behaviour changes, ...),
58 consider adding a note in CHANGES. This could be a summarising
59 description of the change, and could explain the grander details.
60 Have a look through existing entries for inspiration.
61 Please note that this is NOT simply a copy of git-log oneliners.
62 Also note that security fixes get an entry in CHANGES.
63 This file helps users get more in depth information of what comes
64 with a specific release without having to sift through the higher
65 noise ratio in git-log.
67 8. For larger or more important user visible changes, as well as
68 security fixes, please add a line in NEWS. On exception, it might be
69 worth adding a multi-line entry (such as the entry that announces all
70 the types that became opaque with OpenSSL 1.1.0).
71 This file helps users get a very quick summary of what comes with a
72 specific release, to see if an upgrade is worth the effort.