[yocto] [psplash][PATCH 3/3] README: add "Contributing" guideline

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Wed Apr 13 12:42:41 PDT 2016


On 04/13/2016 09:57 AM, Richard Leitner wrote:
> The "Contributing" guideline section should help people sending their
> patches correctly.
> 
> A similar section is available in nearly all
> layers/repositories hosted on yoctoproject.org. Therefore add it also
> the the psplash repository.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Richard Leitner <richard.leitner at skidata.com>
> ---
>  README | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README b/README
> index 86ef6ba..8779a38 100644
> --- a/README
> +++ b/README
> @@ -8,3 +8,21 @@ rotation. Its visual look is configurable by basic source changes.
>  
>  Also included is a 'client' command utility for sending information to
>  psplash such as boot progress information.
> +
> +Contributing
> +============
> +To contribute to this layer you should submit the patches for review to the
> +mailing list (yocto at yoctoproject.org).
> +
> +Please refer to
> +    http://openembedded.org/wiki/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines
> +for some useful guidelines to be followed when submitting patches.
> +
> +Mailing list:
> +    https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
> +
> +When creating patches, please use something like:
> +    git format-patch -M -s --subject-prefix='psplash][PATCH' origin
> +
> +When sending patches, please use something like:
> +    git send-email --to yocto at yoctoproject.org <generated patch>
> 

I cut and paste this line from the meta-oe README for sending patches,
it is a bit simpler than the two step process:

https://github.com/openembedded/meta-openembedded/blob/master/meta-oe/README#L9

Philip




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