[PATCH hwc v1] drm_hwcomposer: Add CONTRIBUTING file

[Sean Paul]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 02:37:18AM +0200, Robert Foss wrote:
> Some basic guidelines for contributions could come in handy.
> 
> These are copied from IGT and modified to be suitable.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Foss <robert.foss at collabora.com>
> ---
>  CONTRIBUTING | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING
> 
> diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..f1b4775
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/CONTRIBUTING
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> +Patches to drm_hwcomposer are very much welcome, we really want this to be the
> +universal HW composer implementation for Android and similar platforms
> +So please bring on porting patches, bugfixes, improvements for documentation
> +and new features.
> +
> +A short list of contribution guidelines:
> +
> +- Please submit patches formatted with git send-email/git format-patch or
> +  equivalent to
> +
> +    dri-devel <dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org>
> +
> +  Please use --subject-prefix="PATCH hwc" so that drm_hwcomposer patches are easily
> +  identified in the massive amount mails on dri-devel. To ensure this is always
> +  done, run:
> +
> +    git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH hwc"
> +
> +- drm_hwcomposer is Apache 2.0 Licensed and we require contributions to follow the
> +  developer's certificate of origin: http://developercertificate.org/
> +
> +- When submitting new code please follow the naming conventions documented
> +  in the generated documentation. Also please make full use of all the helpers and
> +  convenience macros provided by drm_hwcomposer. The below command can help you
> +  with formatting of your patches:
> +  git diff | clang-format-diff-3.5 -p 1 -style=file
> +
> +- Harware specific changes should get tested on relevant platforms

*Hardware

With that,

Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul at chromium.org>

> +  before committing.
> +
> +Happy hacking!
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 

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Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS