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3 #+TITLE: Hacking GNU Guix and Its Incredible Distro
5 Copyright © 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
6 Copyright © 2015, 2017 Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
7 Copyright © 2017 Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
8 Copyright © 2017 Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
10 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
11 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
12 notice and this notice are preserved.
16 See the manual for useful hacking informations, either by running
18 info -f doc/guix.info "Contributing"
20 or by checking the [[http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Contributing][web copy of the manual]].
24 For frequent contributors, having write access to the repository is
25 convenient. When you deem it necessary, feel free to ask for it on the
26 mailing list. When you get commit access, please make sure to follow the
27 policy below (discussions of the policy can take place on guix-devel@gnu.org.)
29 Non-trivial patches should always be posted to guix-patches@gnu.org (trivial
30 patches include fixing typos, etc.). This mailing list fills the
31 patch-tracking database at [[https://bugs.gnu.org/guix-patches]]; see
32 "Contributing" in the manual for details.
34 For patches that just add a new package, and a simple one, it’s OK to commit,
35 if you’re confident (which means you successfully built it in a chroot setup,
36 and have done a reasonable copyright and license auditing.) Likewise for
37 package upgrades, except upgrades that trigger a lot of rebuilds (for example,
38 upgrading GnuTLS or GLib.) We have a mailing list for commit notifications
39 (guix-commits@gnu.org), so people can notice. Before pushing your changes,
40 make sure to run ‘git pull --rebase’.
42 All commits that are pushed to the central repository on Savannah must be
43 signed with an OpenPGP key, and the public key should be uploaded to your user
44 account on Savannah and to public key servers, such as
45 ‘pool.sks-keyservers.net’. To configure Git to automatically sign commits,
48 git config commit.gpgsign true
49 git config user.signingkey CABBA6EA1DC0FF33
51 You can prevent yourself from accidentally pushing unsigned commits to
52 Savannah by using the pre-push Git hook called located at ‘etc/git/pre-push’:
54 cp etc/git/pre-push .git/hooks/pre-push
56 When pushing a commit on behalf of somebody else, please add a Signed-off-by
57 line at the end of the commit log message (e.g. with ‘git am --signoff’).
58 This improves tracking of who did what.
60 For anything else, please post to guix-patches@gnu.org and leave time for a
61 review, without committing anything. If you didn’t receive any reply
62 after two weeks, and if you’re confident, it’s OK to commit.
64 That last part is subject to being adjusted, allowing individuals to commit
65 directly on non-controversial changes on parts they’re familiar with.
69 Bug reports and patches are tracked using debbugs. If you are on emacs, you
70 can use emacs-debbugs.
72 List all open bug reports on guix-patches with
74 C-u M-x debbugs-gnu <RET> <RET> guix-patches <RET> n y