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1# Contributing to Cloud Hypervisor
2
3Cloud Hypervisor is an open source project licensed under the [Apache v2
4License](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0) and the [BSD 3
5Clause](https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) license. Individual files
6contain details of their licensing and changes to that file are under the same
7license unless the contribution changes the license of the file. When importing
8code from a third party project (e.g. Firecracker or CrosVM) please respect the
9license of those projects.
10
11New code should be under the [Apache v2
12License](https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0).
13
14## Coding Style
15
16We follow the [Rust Style](https://github.com/rust-dev-tools/fmt-rfcs/blob/master/guide/guide.md)
17convention and enforce it through the Continuous Integration (CI) process calling into `rustfmt`
18for each submitted Pull Request (PR).
19
20## Certificate of Origin
21
22In order to get a clear contribution chain of trust we use the [signed-off-by language](https://01.org/community/signed-process)
23used by the Linux kernel project.
24
25## Patch format
26
27Beside the signed-off-by footer, we expect each patch to comply with the following format:
28
29```
30<component>: Change summary
31
32More detailed explanation of your changes: Why and how.
33Wrap it to 72 characters.
34See http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
35for some more good pieces of advice.
36
37Signed-off-by: <contributor@foo.com>
38```
39
40For example:
41
42```
43vm-virtio: Reset underlying device on driver request
44
45If the driver triggers a reset by writing zero into the status register
46then reset the underlying device if supported. A device reset also
47requires resetting various aspects of the queue.
48
49In order to be able to do a subsequent reactivate it is required to
50reclaim certain resources (interrupt and queue EventFDs.) If a device
51reset is requested by the driver but the underlying device does not
52support it then generate an error as the driver would not be able to
53configure it anyway.
54
55Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
56```
57
58## Pull requests
59
60Cloud Hypervisor uses the “fork-and-pull” development model. Follow these steps if
61you want to merge your changes to `cloud-hypervisor`:
62
631. Fork the [cloud-hypervisor](https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor) project
64   into your github organization.
652. Within your fork, create a branch for your contribution.
663. [Create a pull request](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-pull-request-from-a-fork/)
67   against the main branch of the Cloud Hypervisor repository.
684. To update your pull request amend existing commits whenever applicable and
69   then push the new changes to your pull request branch.
705. Once the pull request is approved it can be integrated.
71
72## Issue tracking
73
74If you have a problem, please let us know. We recommend using
75[github issues](https://github.com/cloud-hypervisor/cloud-hypervisor/issues/new) for formally
76reporting and documenting them.
77
78To quickly and informally bring something up to us, you can also reach out on [Slack](https://cloud-hypervisor.slack.com).
79
80## Closing issues
81
82You can either close issues manually by adding the fixing commit SHA1 to the issue
83comments or by adding the `Fixes` keyword to your commit message:
84
85```
86serial: Set terminal in raw mode
87
88In order to have proper output from the serial, we need to setup the
89terminal in raw mode. When the VM is shutting down, it is also the
90VMM responsibility to set the terminal back into canonical mode if we
91don't want to get any weird behavior from the shell.
92
93Fixes #88
94
95Signed-off-by: Sebastien Boeuf <sebastien.boeuf@intel.com>
96```
97
98Then, after the corresponding PR is merged, Github will automatically close that issue when parsing the
99[commit message](https://help.github.com/articles/closing-issues-via-commit-messages/).
100