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Ross Burton
dacb67f70f documentation: link to the Releases page on yoctoproject.org instead of wiki
We have a machine-generated Releases page[1] which is preferable to the
wiki.

[1] https://www.yoctoproject.org/development/releases/

(From yocto-docs rev: 492619059cbbe2d1ebc347c3e86072f32d7d064a)

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 46a9172fd17aa518028e35b8c874e74889079094)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-11-19 08:21:24 -08:00
Quentin Schulz
fd0df2cb78 contributor-guide: submit-changes: make "Crediting contributors" part of "Commit your changes"
There's no need to differentiate crediting contributors from committing
your changes, so let's simply make it the last step of "Commit your
changes" section.

This simply indents the text so it's now part of "Commit your changes"
list instead of the main list in the "Implement and commit changes"
section. Because of this reorganisation, the instruction to use "git
commit --amend" to add the contributors is moved to a note, and the
first few sentences are reworded to better match the wording of other
items in the "Commit your changes" list of instructions.

(From yocto-docs rev: 5ce7ae8f655f45dec80e68398911f117920f5eb2)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit eff4d14e28d323ebfdaeb0c5c805b5f1e2ad153d)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:18 -07:00
Quentin Schulz
ffd5cd98d6 contributor-guide: submit-changes: number instruction list in commit your changes
... so that it's clear that you need to read and follow each and every
instruction in this list.

(From yocto-docs rev: 4799ffa5170a5f9e12350634bcdfca6f531ea937)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit c628a489f081925fabaabb5acac6752251150269)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:17 -07:00
Quentin Schulz
794b42f01a contributor-guide: submit-changes: reword commit message instructions
This should hopefully make it clearer what is expected from the
contributor.

This follows my understanding of git-commit(1)[1] where the following is
a git commit message:

"""
git commit title

git commit description
"""

I'm putting the "Fixes [YOCTO" line in "body of the commit message" so
it's understood as being different from the git commit description so
that the note admonition allowing us to have an empty commit description
doesn't apply to the "Fixes [YOCTO" line.

[1] https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/git-commit.1.html#DISCUSSION

(From yocto-docs rev: f817ef5542adc2ce830e22dd04424b9d5d5ed5c5)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit b84903a760350bd118c56ea9ce4e98039edf6e55)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:17 -07:00
Quentin Schulz
11999973cb contributor-guide: submit-changes: make the Cc tag follow kernel guidelines
The kernel docs specifies[1] a Cc: tag and not CC: tag, so let's align
with that.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by

(From yocto-docs rev: 87721121d9dc95e2de110cadee4538e2ea4ff7c3)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit f800fef4e9e2c1d3584ac49be8324638d2923b17)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:17 -07:00
Quentin Schulz
49a5ab4d5f contributor-guide: submit-changes: align CC tag description
The other tag descriptions have the double colon outside of the
highlight, and start the sentence with a lowercase word, so let's align
the CC tag with those.

(From yocto-docs rev: 9764dc8ff26883684f3e993cfa821116ee2e6d95)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit f116e93fb335e9d0f85891c4cb501bcf55b18ccf)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:17 -07:00
Quentin Schulz
d153a3dc36 contributor-guide: submit-changes: clarify example with Yocto bug ID
The example could be understood as the content of the commit message
once the editor (git config core.editor) opens, where the first
line is the actual commit title and not the commit description.

This example would make the Fixes line the commit title, which is not
what we want.

In short, according to my understanding of git-commit(1):

The following is a git commit message:

"""
git commit title

git commit description
"""

Reported-by: Barne Carstensen <barne.carstensen@danfoss.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: db54a8bd56f38c532498e0f624fcceb60d2b9ea7)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit a5862406bf3230befe9db9f2539bbbc86c02015d)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:17 -07:00
Quentin Schulz
2399c63ca5 contributor-guide: submit-changes: fix improper bold string
I don't know what was the initial intent but this doesn't seem right, so
let's remove the bold formatting.

Fixes: 4abe87cb20d3 ("contributor-guide: submit-changes: detail commit and patch creation")
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@rootcommit.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: 508a1b7d905dabe8a36361da8e346040db4cca2a)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 6c499b3796a578a0fe4c319c9547b4321b0d41df)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-10-03 09:51:17 -07:00
Trevor Woerner
40232dc020 contributor-guide/submit-changes: encourage patch version changelogs
Add a section after the 'git format-patch' information encouraging developers
to add patch version changelogs to their patch updates.

(From yocto-docs rev: a9f9d53fa4a29e3cf846868567190425ffed8bf0)

Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2e3a37c4607b296956993e557d1786c4876e5722)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-05-28 08:46:32 -07:00
Antonin Godard
2b7619fe2b contributor-guide/submit-changes: add policy on AI generated code
Based on message by Richard Purdie on the yocto-docs list:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/docs/message/6300

Re-formatted for the Yocto Project documentation syntax.

(From yocto-docs rev: 50eae3ab433ada5c3863d880f11e2b2bcbd46b94)

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit a72dd13e6841b621c9e8f904dfaa440c186d2959)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-02-24 07:00:54 -08:00
Antonin Godard
7dee2d8918 contributor-guide/submit-changes.rst: suggest to remove the git signature
By default when sending patches Git adds the git version at the bottom
of the patch, which is not necessary in most cases. Suggest to remove it
when configuring Git when sending patches.

Suggested-By: Jaekyu Lee <jaekyu.lee@lge.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: b3223f919e0445c0059cddf0ce02cb27f83582c3)

Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit d3465691231f10466703198a831a681803ffdfad)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2025-01-09 08:41:04 -08:00
Talel BELHAJSALEM
1290dcc6e8 contributor-guide: Remove duplicated words
Remove "and then" as it is duplicated.

(From yocto-docs rev: 09ca306a8d5fc5306388f2093541ba4110f603ea)

Signed-off-by: Talel BELHAJSALEM <bhstalel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@cherry.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
(cherry picked from commit 52ed947120e400620277a58f895294b558a9324e)
Signed-off-by: Antonin Godard <antonin.godard@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2024-11-15 06:05:32 -08:00
Quentin Schulz
c243b5649b manuals: refer to new yocto-patches mailing list wherever appropriate
There's a new yocto-patches mailing list available for all layers that
do not have their own mailing list.

c.f. https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/topic/105197684

Cc: Quentin Schulz <foss+yocto@0leil.net>
(From yocto-docs rev: d7fc3e978440d9f5724cbce85de000317a3e0783)

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@theobroma-systems.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2024-04-19 04:50:39 -07:00
Martin Jansa
28cd826b57 contributor-guide: be more specific about meta-* trees
* this is often confused to apply for e.g. meta-oe as well
  where it doesn't apply as meta-oe has own ML mentioned
  in README.

(From yocto-docs rev: 98102408fe5468529e040a138f09c8fbc5fe065a)

Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2024-04-05 07:24:00 -07:00
Simone Weiß
ccb4e6abb4 contributor-guide: add notes for tests
This adds some hints that and how changes should be tested when contributing.

Fixes [YOCTO #15412]

(From yocto-docs rev: 649843f4d20d1d840e1c6c4ce15e89b3a8508e0f)

Signed-off-by: Simone Weiß <simone.p.weiss@posteo.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2024-03-25 04:11:26 -10:00
Baruch Siach
11266e7f8c contributor-guide: fix lore URL
Cc: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
(From yocto-docs rev: af340c7d9a327af0de14d7a6f19215866a0ea835)

Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Reviewed-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2024-02-09 03:46:50 -10:00
Michael Opdenacker
ae249a900f contributor-guide: use "apt" instead of "aptitude"
As used in the rest of the manual.

(From yocto-docs rev: c68954d905f01f6cc4f7c8ceb90e77cf9068e639)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2024-01-24 04:04:55 -10:00
Michael Opdenacker
3a5ddec4d1 contributor-guide: fix command option
"--subject-prefix" applies to "git format-patch", not "git send-email"

(From yocto-docs rev: cf3697cebc0494a624fa2766d07c3532ec6b4341)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2023-12-21 06:14:00 -10:00
Michael Opdenacker
b099a1c252 manuals: update former references to dev-manual/common-tasks
(From yocto-docs rev: f8bb4c392912f15bb78f6f25910f85897abb4e3d)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2023-09-23 05:26:16 -10:00
Michael Opdenacker
5d822b3131 manuals: add new contributor guide
(From yocto-docs rev: 028a1b89fbb6ee7f02a7ca8cd481931e096d764b)

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@bootlin.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
2023-09-08 16:09:42 -10:00