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Authors: Jason Lowe-Power
Andreas Sandberg
Steve Reinhardt
+ Bobby R. Bruce
If you've made changes to gem5 that might benefit others, we strongly encourage
you to contribute those changes to the public gem5 repository. There are
@@ -179,6 +180,11 @@ Signed-off-by tag to the commit message. By adding this line, the contributor
certifies the contribution is made under the terms of the Developer Certificate
of Origin (DCO) [https://developercertificate.org/].
+If your change relates to a [Jira Issue](https://gem5.atlassian.net), it is
+advised that you provide a link to the issue in the commit message (or messages
+if the Jira Issue relates to multiple commits). Though optional, doing this
+can help reviewers understand the context of a change.
+
It is imperative that you use your real name and your real email address in
both tags and in the author field of the changeset.