Thank you for your interest in contributing! PICLas is an open-source project and very happy to accept contributions from the community. This project welcomes contributions of all kinds - bug reports, feature requests, code improvements, documentation updates, and more. All contributions are coordinated through issues and direct communication with the PICLas team.
To ensure your contributions can be integrated smoothly, please follow these guidelines:
- Ensure you have a GitHub account.
- Check existing issues before opening a new one.
- Open an issue and clearly describing the issue:
- Steps to reproduce
- Expected behavior
- Actual behavior
- Environment information (OS, version, etc.)
- Minimal example if possible
- Discuss your proposed change with the PICLas team in the issue.
New source files must start with the standard license header, see the Style Guide.
Please follow our Code of Conduct to ensure a welcoming environment for everyone.
As a contributor, you certify that all your contributions are in conformance with the Developer Certificate of Origin (Version 1.1), which is reproduced below. The following text was taken from https://developercertificate.org:
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
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.