1# Contributing to ISA-L 2 3Everyone is welcome to contribute. Patches may be submitted using GitHub pull 4requests (PRs). All commits must be signed off by the developer (--signoff) 5which indicates that you agree to the Developer Certificate of Origin. Patch 6discussion will happen directly on the GitHub PR. Design pre-work and general 7discussion occurs on the [mailing list]. Anyone can provide feedback in either 8location and all discussion is welcome. Decisions on whether to merge patches 9will be handled by the maintainer. 10 11## License 12 13ISA-L is licensed using a BSD 3-clause [license]. All code submitted to 14the project is required to carry that license. 15 16## Certificate of Origin 17 18In order to get a clear contribution chain of trust we use the 19[signed-off-by language] used by the Linux kernel project. 20 21## Mailing List 22 23Contributors and users are welcome to submit new request on our roadmap, submit 24patches, file issues, and ask questions on our [mailing list]. 25 26## Coding Style 27 28The coding style for ISA-L C code is roughly based on LLVM style with 29some customizations. Use the included format script to format C code. 30 31 ./tools/format.sh 32 33And use check format script before submitting. 34 35 ./tools/check_format.sh 36 37[mailing list]:https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/isal@lists.01.org/ 38[license]:LICENSE 39[signed-off-by language]:https://01.org/community/signed-process 40