Work on the ibm-spectrum-scale-container-native project should always be performed in a forked copy of the repo, incorporated into the main project using a pull request against the Development (dev) branch.
When adding features the following process should be followed:
- Make sure you have been approved to contribute code
- Fork the repo, create a branch for you feature
- Run changes through appropriate linters
- Create a Pull Request for your feature
- Sign your work (required)
The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch. 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.
Note: If your git config information is set properly then viewing the git log information for your commit will look something like this:
Author: Joe Smith [email protected] Date: Thu Feb 2 11:41:15 2018 -0800
docs: Update README
Signed-off-by: Joe Smith [email protected] Notice the Author and Signed-off-by lines match. If they don't your PR will be rejected.