CONTRIBUTING.md

How to contribute

We are really glad you are reading this, because we need volunteer developers to help this project.

If you have not already, come find us in or contact us via mailing list. We want you working on things you're excited about. Drop a message and if some one can assist you, will contact you back ASAP.

Here are some important resources:

• pgRouting for Developers has the internals C/C++ code information,
• Wish list on the wiki is the foot view of what we think the community needs.
• Additional wish lst. (TODO to move the information to the wiki wish list)
• Participate on the discussions.
• Participate fixing Documentation.
• Find a bug? Let us know.

Contribution agreement

Any kind of contribution will automatically fall to the following Licences:

• Code contribution: GNU General Public License v2.0 or later,
  • Directly by making an explicit pull request.
  • Indirectly by posting code on issues/wiki/gitter/mailng lists
• Documentation contribution:
  • Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

Submitting changes

Write a clear log message for your commits. One-line messages are fine for small changes, but bigger changes should have more information. Fill the commit message template.

Coding conventions

Start reading our code and you'll get the hang of it. We optimize for readability: This is open source software. Consider the people who will read your code, and make it look nice for them.

• We indent using four spaces (soft tabs)
• We use cpplint for linting C/C++ code.

Thanks, pgRouting team