Rust Hypervisor Firmware is an open source project licensed under the Apache v2 License.
We follow the Rust Style
convention and enforce it through the Continuous Integration (CI) process calling into rustfmt
for each submitted Pull Request (PR).
In order to get a clear contribution chain of trust we use the [signed-off-by language] (https://01.org/community/signed-process) used by the Linux kernel project.
Beside the signed-off-by footer, we expect each patch to comply with the following format:
<component>: Change summary
More detailed explanation of your changes: Why and how.
Wrap it to 72 characters.
See http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
for some more good pieces of advice.
Signed-off-by: <contributor@foo.com>
For example:
commit 6e9477ba25ac09cc6d918e6512b9eb4e0fb5a2a5
Author: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Date: Wed May 1 17:30:51 2019 +0100
block: Partially split VirtioMMIOBlockDevice
Create a new trait called VirtioTransport and create a
VirtioMMIOTransport that implements that trait moving all the virtio
MMIO register updates into that. This means the block code is somewhat
independent of MMIO.
Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford <robert.bradford@intel.com>
Rust Hypervisor Firmware uses the “fork-and-pull” development model. Follow these steps if you want to merge your changes to the project`:
- Fork the rust-hypervisor-firmware project into your github organization.
- Within your fork, create a branch for your contribution.
- Create a pull request against the master branch of the repository.
- Once the pull request is approved, one of the maintainers will merge it.
If you have a problem, please let us know. We recommend using github issues for formally reporting and documenting them.