It is important that contributors take the review process seriously
and we collaborate in a respectful way while avoiding personal
attacks. Try and make this clear in the language.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221117172532.538149-8-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
The bullet points are quite long and contain process tips. Move those
bits of the bullet to the relevant sections and link to them. Use a
table for nicer formatting of the checklist.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221117172532.538149-7-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
We welcome all sorts of patches.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20221117172532.538149-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Let's use more inclusive language here and avoid terms
that are frowned upon nowadays.
Message-Id: <20220711095300.60462-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
There where some broken links so fix those up with proper references
to the devel docs. I also did a little light copy-editing to reflect
the current state and broke up a paragraph to reduce the "wall of
text" effect.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220527153603.887929-34-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Add some more examples of commonly used commit-message tags.
(Thanks: Alex Bennée)
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211119193118.949698-3-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
I completely botched up the merged[0] rST conversion of this document by
accidentally dropping entire hunks (!) of text. :-( I made it very hard
for reviewers to spot it, as the omitted text was buried deep in the
document. To fix my hatchet job, I reconverted the "SubmitAPatch"
wiki[1] page from scratch and replaced the existing rST with it, while
making sure I incorporated previous feedback.
In summary, in this reconverted edition:
- I did a careful (to the extent my eyes allowed) para-by-para
comparison of the wiki and the rST to make sure I didn't omit
anything accidentally.
- I made sure to work in the cosmetic feedback[2] that Thomas Huth
pointed out in the merged (and botched) edition:
- fix the hyperlinks in "Split up long patches"
- replace ".". with "does not end with a dot" (in "Write a meaningful
commit message" section)
- replace "---" with ``---`` so that it doesn't render as an em-dash
(there were two other occurrences; I fixed those too)
- Use "QEMU" spelling consistently in prose usage
- Add a consistent "refer to git-config" link where appropriate
Thanks to Thomas Huth and Alex Bennée for noticing it on IRC. And sorry
for my sloppiness.
Fixes: 9f73de8df0 ("docs: rSTify the "SubmitAPatch" wiki")
[0] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9f73de8df033
[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&oldid=10387
[2] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg03600.html
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211119193118.949698-2-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[thuth: Some more cosmetical changes, fixed links from external to internal]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
- The original wiki is here[1]. I copied the wiki source[2] into a .wiki
file, and used `pandoc` to convert it to rST:
$> pandoc -f Mediawiki -t rst submitting-a-patch.wiki -o
submitting-a-patch.rst
- The only minor touch-ups I did was to fix URLs. But 99%, it is a 1-1
conversion.
(An example of a "touch-up": under the section "Patch emails must
include a Signed-off-by: line", I updated the "see SubmittingPatches
1.12" to "1.12) Sign your work")
- I have also converted a couple other related wiki pages (included in
this patch series) that were hyperlinked within the SubmitAPatch page,
or a page that it refers to:
- SubmitAPullRequest: https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPullRequest
- TrivialPatches: https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
- Over time, many people contributed to this wiki page; you can find all
the authors in the wiki history[3].
[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
[2] http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&action=edit
[3] http://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&action=history
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211110144902.388183-4-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
[thuth: Cosmetic fixes]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
