[libcamera-devel] [PATCH] Documentation: Briefly document the mail-based contribution process

Umang Jain umang.jain at ideasonboard.com
Wed Apr 6 07:25:24 CEST 2022


Hi,

Thank you for the patch.

On 4/5/22 23:44, Laurent Pinchart via libcamera-devel wrote:
> 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 <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/contributing.rst | 6 ++++++
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/contributing.rst b/Documentation/contributing.rst
> index b192c3b43153..8f06e3647e5d 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 trouble configuring it for your


s/trouble/have trouble/ maybe?

Reviewed-by: Umang Jain <umang.jain at ideasonboard.com>

> +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:'
>
> base-commit: a2aa1b4c4e441b7b2fb40c976489b109c1de0bc4


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