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diff --git a/doc/ale-development.txt b/doc/ale-development.txt index 3d0dd524..19a95954 100644 --- a/doc/ale-development.txt +++ b/doc/ale-development.txt @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ CONTENTS *ale-development-contents* 4.1. Writing Linter Tests.............|ale-development-linter-tests| 4.2. Writing Fixer Tests..............|ale-development-fixer-tests| 4.3. Running Tests in a Windows VM....|ale-development-windows-tests| + 5. Contributing.........................|ale-development-contributing| =============================================================================== 1. Introduction *ale-development-introduction* @@ -445,4 +446,22 @@ batch file, for example: `run-tests test/test_c_flag_parsing.vader` . This will give you results much more quickly. =============================================================================== +5. Contributing *ale-development-contributing* + +All integration of new code into ALE is done through GitHub pull requests. +Using that tool streamlines the process and minimizes the time and effort +required to e.g. ensure test suites are run for every change. + +As for any project hosted by GitHub, the choice of platform demands every +contributor to take care to setup an account and configure it accordingly. + +Due to details of our process, a difference to many other GitHub hosted +projects is that contributors who wish to keep the author fields for their +commits unaltered need to configure a public email address in their account +and profile settings. See: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/ + +Unless configuring GitHub to expose contact details, commits will be rewritten +to appear by `USERNAME <RANDOM_NUMBER+USERNAME@users.noreply.github.com>` . + +=============================================================================== vim:tw=78:ts=2:sts=2:sw=2:ft=help:norl: |