From a4060ab9505af6b34258db70726c64e96409e5ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Pierre-Yves=20P=C3=A9neau?= Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 09:58:16 +0100 Subject: misc: add copyright/name information for contribution MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Change-Id: I9242ce50b86b02ec1880d411627da11265cb8961 Signed-off-by: Pierre-Yves Péneau Reviewed-on: https://gem5-review.googlesource.com/2328 Reviewed-by: Andreas Sandberg Reviewed-by: Brandon Potter Reviewed-by: Jason Lowe-Power Maintainer: Jason Lowe-Power --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'CONTRIBUTING.md') diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 8e82798bc..a9781a34d 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ of Origin (DCO) [https://developercertificate.org/]. 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. +For significant changes, authors are encouraged to add copyright information +and their names at the beginning of the file. The main purpose of the author +names on the file is to track who is most knowledgeable about the file (e.g., +who has contributed a significant amount of code to the file). + Note: If you do not follow these guidelines, the gerrit review site will automatically reject your patch. If this happens, update your changeset descriptions to match the required style -- cgit v1.2.3