# Sending Patches
MiSoC does not use GitHub pull requests. Instead you must send patches to the public mailing list <devel@lists.m-labs.hk>.
Before sending patches, please read the rest of this guide and make sure your patch meets the following criteria;
- [ ] Meets style guide requirements listed below.
- [ ] Includes a suitable commit message.
Sending mail to the mailing list can be done via the git send-email tool. The git send-email tool is not included by default on many Linux distributions, on Ubuntu / Debian systems you may need to install the git-email package. Documentation on using this tool can be found at http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email
To send patches to the mailing list you must first be subscribed to the list. You can subscribe at https://ssl.serverraum.org/lists/listinfo/devel
An example session would be; ``` # Set up [sendemail] as described at http://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email in # the EXAMPLE section.
# Download, make changes to misoc and commit them git clone https://github.com/m-labs/misoc cd misoc edit xxx.py git commit -a
# Send patch to mailing list # -------------------------- # 1) Remove any previous outgoing patch rm -rf outgoing
# 2) Put the patches to be sent into the outgoing directory git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o outgoing/
# 3) Edit the cover letter with information about the patch edit outgoing/0000-*
# 4) Actually send the email. git send-email --to=devel@lists.m-labs.hk outgoing/* ```
# Help
If your submission is large and complex and/or you are not sure how to proceed, feel free to discuss it on the mailing list or IRC (#m-labs on Freenode) beforehand.
# Style Guide
All code should be compliant with the [PEP8 style guide](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/).
You can use the [pep8 tool](https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) to check compliance with pep8 myfile.py
When modifying existing code be consistent with any existing code style.
# License
All new contributions should be under the same license as MiSoC. This is a very permissive two-clause BSD license. Full license text can be found at https://github.com/m-labs/misoc/blob/master/LICENSE