From c45f9ce04ccc6e7770e2bdd7e9d42b83c7b95835 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laurent Pinchart Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 21:09:22 +0300 Subject: Documentation: Briefly document the mail-based contribution process While familiarity with git is nowadays common, many developers are not familiar with mail-based patch submission. Add a paragraph to the contribution guide to mention that libcamera uses a mail-based process (which seems to have been taken for granted so much that we forgot to say it explicitly), and link to git-send-email.io to help newcomers setup git-send-email. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Reviewed-by: Umang Jain Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi --- Documentation/contributing.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/contributing.rst b/Documentation/contributing.rst index b192c3b4..57bc9acc 100644 --- a/Documentation/contributing.rst +++ b/Documentation/contributing.rst @@ -68,6 +68,12 @@ code that is as easy to read, understand and maintain as possible. This is made possible by a set of :ref:`coding-style-guidelines` that all submissions are expected to follow. +The patch submission process for libcamera is similar to the Linux kernel, and +goes through the `libcamera-devel`_ mailing list. If you have no previous +experience with ``git-send-email``, or just experience trouble configuring it +for your e-mail provider, the sourcehut developers have put together a detailed +guide available at https://git-send-email.io/. + Patches submitted to the libcamera project must be certified as suitable for integration into an open source project. As such libcamera follows the same model as utilised by the Linux kernel, and requires the use of 'Signed-off-by:' -- cgit v1.2.1