Dune is an community orientated open source project. It was originally developed at Jane Street and is now maintained by Jane Street, Tarides as well as several developers from the OCaml community.
Contributions to Dune are welcome and should be submitted via GitHub
pull requests against the main
branch. See ./doc/hacking.rst
for a guide to getting started on the code base.
Dune is distributed under the MIT license and contributors are required to sign their work in order to certify that they have the right to submit it under this license. See the following section for more details.
We require that you sign your contributions. Your signature certifies that you wrote the patch 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 (from developercertificate.org):
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
1 Letterman Drive
Suite D4700
San Francisco, CA, 94129
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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) 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 to every git commit message:
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith <[email protected]>
Use your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
If you set your user.name
and user.email
git configs, you can sign
your commit automatically with git commit -s
.
It is possible to set up git
so that it signs off automatically by using a
prepare-commit-msg hook in git. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/46536244 for
details. As noted in the manual for format.signOff
, note that adding the
Signed-off-by
trailer should be a conscious act and means that you certify
you have the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
- wrap lines at 80 characters,
- use
[Ss]nake_case
over[Pp]ascalCase
.