1. Anything other than a trivial contribution requires a Contributor
License Agreement (CLA), giving us permission to use your code. See
https://www.openssl.org/policies/cla.html for details. If your
- contribution is too small to require a CLA, put "CLA: trivial" on a
- line by itself in your commit message body.
+ contribution is too small to require a CLA (e.g. fixing a spelling
+ mistake), place the text "CLA: trivial" on a line by itself separated by
+ an empty line from the rest of the commit message. It is not sufficient to
+ only place the text in the GitHub pull request description.
+
+ To amend a missing "CLA: trivial" line after submission, do the following:
+
+ git commit --amend
+ [add the line, save and quit the editor]
+ git push -f
2. All source files should start with the following text (with
appropriate comment characters at the start of each line and the
7. For user visible changes (API changes, behaviour changes, ...),
consider adding a note in CHANGES. This could be a summarising
description of the change, and could explain the grander details.
- Have a look through existing entries for inspiration.
+ Have a look through existing entries for inspiration.
Please note that this is NOT simply a copy of git-log oneliners.
Also note that security fixes get an entry in CHANGES.
This file helps users get more in depth information of what comes