Contributing to gfs2-utils -------------------------- Here are some brief guidelines to follow when contributing to gfs2-utils. Translations ------------ We use the Zanata translation service: https://fedora.zanata.org/project/view/gfs2-utils See the documentation there for submitting translations. Patches ------- We don't dictate any particular coding style but please try to use a style consistent with the existing code. If in doubt, the Linux kernel coding style document is a good guideline: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle We use git for managing our source code and we assume here that you're familiar with git. Patches should apply cleanly to the latest master branch of gfs2-utils.git https://pagure.io/gfs2-utils For ease of review and maintenance each of your patches should address a single issue and if there are multiple issues please consider spreading your work over several patches. Ideally none of the individual patches should break the build. We value good commit logs, which should be of the form: component: short patch summary Longer description wrapped at approx. 72 columns explaining the problem the patch addresses and how the patch addresses it. Signed-off-by: Your Name The "component" should be the name of the tool or the part of the code which the patch touches. As we share a mailing list with several projects it should make clear that it's a gfs2-utils patch. Some examples: Bad short logs: Fix a bug Add a test Good short logs: fsck.gfs2: Fix a null pointer dereference in foo gfs2-utils: Add a test for lgfs2_do_stuff Be sure to reference any relevant bug reports in your long description, e.g. Ref: rhbz#012345 Fixes: rhbz#98765 Please send patches to . We recommend using `git format-patch' to generate patch emails from your commits and `git send-email' for sending them to the list. See the git documentation for details.