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Diffstat (limited to 'CONTRIBUTING')
| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTING | 37 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index 464b0b8996..3127eccf26 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -1,19 +1,17 @@ -Guidelines for Contributing: - -1) Platform-specific functionality (for example, location of binaries that -NetworkManager calls, or functionality used only on some platforms or -distribution, like resolvconf) should be configurable at build time, with the -normal autoconf mechanisms for putting a #define in config.h (AC_DEFINE), then -with #ifdef MY_DEFINE / #endif in the code. - -2) Coding standards are generally GNOME coding standards, with these exceptions: - a) 4 space tabs (_not_ 8-space tabs) - b) REAL tabs (_not_ a mix of tabs and spaces in the initial indent) - c) spaces used to align continuation lines past the indent point of the - first statement line, like so: - - if (some_really_really_long_variable_name && - another_really_really_long_variable_name) { +Guidelines for Contributing +=========================== + +Coding Standard +--------------- + +Coding standards are generally GNOME coding standards, with these exceptions: + a) 4 space tabs (_not_ 8-space tabs) + b) REAL tabs (_not_ a mix of tabs and spaces in the initial indent) + c) spaces used to align continuation lines past the indent point of the + first statement line, like so: + + if ( some_really_really_long_variable_name + && another_really_really_long_variable_name) { ... } @@ -36,7 +34,8 @@ with #ifdef MY_DEFINE / #endif in the code. GOOD: #define MY_CONSTANT 42 BAD: static const unsigned myConstant = 42; -3) Legal: +Legal +----- NetworkManager is partly licensed under terms of GNU Lesser General Public License version 2 or later (LGPL-2.0+). That is for example the case for libnm. @@ -49,13 +48,13 @@ The reason for that is that we might eventually relicense everything as LGPL and new contributions already must agree with that future change. Assertions in NetworkManager code -================================= +--------------------------------- There are different kind of assertions. Use the one that is appropriate. 1) g_return_*() from glib. This is usually enabled in release builds and can be disabled with G_DISABLE_CHECKS define. This uses g_log() with - a cG_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL level (which allows the program to continue, + G_LOG_LEVEL_CRITICAL level (which allows the program to continue, until G_DEBUG=fatal-criticals or G_DEBUG=fatal-warnings is set). As such, this is the preferred way for assertions that are commonly enabled. |