Add a note about the "branch out of date" and "Update branch" GitHub
feature. That message is confusing for new users and we often see people
losing approvals and introducing merge commits with it. Adding a note
in the contribution guidelines would hopefully help some.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabiobaltieri@google.com>
There hasn't been any topic branch in widespread use. This point is
still relevant for backports or some advanced usage, but since this list
is meant to help contributor approaching the project it may be a good
idea to drop the point and make the list a tiny bit shorter and less
intimidating.
Instead, mention that main should be used "if unsure" in the previous
point.
Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabiobaltieri@google.com>
This pull request documents additional requirements for treewide
changes which were discussed at the process WG (see
issue #48886 for details).
These requirements apply to especially impactful changes. They exist
both to try to make sure the changes get enough review, and to give
users a heads-up mechanism about incoming treewide changes.
Signed-off-by: Martí Bolívar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
This commit fixes the incorrect reference to the `doc/Makefile` and
updates the text to better integrate the reference.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <stephanos.ioannidis@nordicsemi.no>
This commit fixes incorrect depiction of the internal link with custom
text usage.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <stephanos.ioannidis@nordicsemi.no>
This commit updates the documentation guidelines to reflect the
refactored documentation paths.
It also corrects the unnecessary escapes of the backticks.
Signed-off-by: Stephanos Ioannidis <stephanos.ioannidis@nordicsemi.no>
Add the missing piece of documentation for binary blobs: the submission
process. This follows the external source code process relatively close,
but it is relatively simpler.
The proposal includes a new issue template for requesting inclusion of
blob(s) for a particular module.
Fixes#7516.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
From a user perspective, it doesn't really matter that west blobs is
an extension. And again from a user perspective, the fact that the
command is called "blobs" is much more important than knowing that
it's an extension. Similarly, the fact that we host it in zephyr and
why isn't super relevant.
Re-work the docs so that we refer to the command as "west blobs"
instead of "a/the west extension" or "west", for ease of reading.
Signed-off-by: Martí Bolívar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
Extend the existing documentation by documenting the command itself and
the format of the module.yml blobs section.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Prefer clang-format over uncrustify for source code formatting.
uncrustify configuration files will be removed in future commits.
Signed-off-by: Gerard Marull-Paretas <gerard.marull@nordicsemi.no>
Add rule based page hooks to allow to jump to
the respective rule in a webbrowser directly.
Example:
.../coding_guidelines/index.html#misrac-rule-2-2
Signed-off-by: Roman Kellner <rkellner@baumer.com>
It is quite confusing to describe Zephyr's source tree layout in the
section for application development, given that applications do not need
to follow the exact same layout as the main tree.
Instead move this section to the contribution guidelines chapter.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The layout of this table unreasonably assigns narrow widths for
for column(s) with lots of content, and wise-versa.
Define relative column widths to be more in sync with column
content. This will potentially produce more compact table, making
it more readable, clearer and more visually pleasing.
Signed-off-by: Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.markovic.sa@gmail.com>
Rework the contribution guide's Signed-off-by: language to be clearer
and reflect the TSC guidance that legal names are required. Also
clarify that existing s-o-b lines should be preserved.
Signed-off-by: Martí Bolívar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
Recently we started to use Parasoft Codescan Static Analysis tool
to fix MISRA violations and align code to follow our Coding Guidelines.
I started fixing violations, and adding suppression tages to fix
false-positive findings. Developers started to ask me, what I'm doing
here and where is the documentation page about that.
Add a new section describing violations fixing process using Parasoft
tool.
Signed-off-by: Maksim Masalski <maksim.masalski@intel.com>
Updates wording in Coding Guidelines page to remove outdated timelines
and correct the criteria for each stage. Changes reflect that we are
in stage 1 and will not reach stage 2 until the CI for enforcing
coding guidelines has been established.
Signed-off-by: Lauren Murphy <lauren.murphy@intel.com>
After the Technical Steering Committee decided to approve the transition
from Slack to Discord, it is necessary to update all the documentation
to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
This guideline seems to be missed during the Zephyr's code guideline
creation. That is a good guideline that aims to address some problems
like double free or freeing not allocated memory.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@intel.com>
This guideline address three undefined behaviors listed in the C99
standard. Although Zephyr does not support/implement these functions,
they are part of the C library and could be implemented in the future.
Also this is mandatory rule in MISRA-C and if one day Zephyr decides to
claim compliance with MISRA-C this guideline has to be followed.
Signed-off-by: Flavio Ceolin <flavio.ceolin@intel.com>
Add a link to best practices about copyright notices and when to and
when not to change them or add them.
Fixes#6777
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Now that we use 'main' for git development, update the docs to reflect
or point there instead of 'master'.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@linaro.org>
The current location makes no sense because this is for users, not
contributors. Put it in the GSG since a previous attempt to restore
its location under the user guides was rejected in favor of this
location.
Signed-off-by: Martí Bolívar <marti.bolivar@nordicsemi.no>
We have been adding process related docs in different places.
Consolidate them under one section in the docs and rename the top level
section to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
As per the agreements in the Process Group Meeting, rework the procedure
to include external code so that it reflects the reality of Zehyr today
with the choice between modules and integration into the main tree, and
decouple the non-Apache v2.0 license side of the question from the
process from importing 3rd-party code.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The Maintairs file will be used to replace the code owners file and will
be used to add reviewers (collaborators + maintainers of affected
areas).
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Updates the contribution guidelines to document the current board policy
of rejecting non-OSI-approved licenses.
Signed-off-by: Maureen Helm <maureen.helm@nxp.com>
Add a small section that describes the existance of the coding
guidelines page and links to it, in order to raise awareness of the
effort towards complying with those.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Add a link to the page describing our development
processes, as it contains the description of how
to identify issues and pull requests as stale.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
Add a small section, clarifying the policies around modifying
contributions submitted by other developers.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
Add a small paragraph in the Contribution Guidelines
documentation to stress that cherry-picking of patches
into other pull requests is an allowed practive. Add a
link to additional documentation clarifying policies
around modifying patches of other developers.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
We modify the content around the Release Team formation,
and maintenance, describing in detail how maintainers
may be added to the team. Add a comment about Release
Managers that stresses that they must be members of the
team. Add details on how the TSC shall ensure a functional
release team. Add details on how the release team will
be picking release managers (cadence and selection process).
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
We add a section that clarifies how the project
roles may be removed. We stress that the rules
will apply to elected project roles that the TSC
may define in the future.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
We need to clarify how Maintainers may become voting
TSC member, and direct this to the Charter guidelines.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
Add a link and a note about the Project Roles' documentation in
contribute/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
Add initial version of Project Roles documentation.
The initial version contains the content that has
already been approved by the TSC on Feb 5, 2020.
Signed-off-by: Ioannis Glaropoulos <Ioannis.Glaropoulos@nordicsemi.no>
Clarify the roles and responsibilities of the Zephyr community
and contributors with respect to PRs, Bugs, and Features.
Signed-off-by: David Leach <david.leach@nxp.com>
A few new contributors, after reading the uncrustify section
of the contribution guidelines, have decided to run
existing Zephyr files thru uncrustify, and include in commits
with minor fixes lots of styles changes.
This is something we do not want to encourage.
To avoid this, modify a bit the uncrustify section to
discourage people from doing just that.
Signed-off-by: Alberto Escolar Piedras <alpi@oticon.com>
builds@lists.zephyrproject.org archives the CI build results for every
and nightly build. Add references to this in the contribution
guidelines and introduction (pulled from README).
Also added a reference to the "Asking for Help" doc (there was a note to
add this once that doc was merged).
Fixes: #15652
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Zephyr requires braces on every code block that a keyword introduces, so
list the complete set in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
The command `recheck` was always experimental and should not be part of
the contribution guidelines and flow. It is not working now, so remove
it from the docs.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Linking to API material requires knowing the pecularities of how
doxygen, sphinx, and breathe work. In an attempt to hide some of this
we're preparing the current docs to allow use of configuration defaults
that will let us more simply use a default role that will hunt for a
reference target in the various domains that are available by using a
default "role" of "all". This will let us use the simple notation
`functionname` or `typename` without fully specifying the reference as
:c:func:`functionname`.
This patch cleans up exising docs that were (incorrectly) using single
backtics where double backtics should have been used, and also found
some typos (such as a space between the role name and the reference,
such as :file: `filename`, and a missing colon such as
c:func:`functionname`)
This is a start to address issue #14313
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Let folks know that using amend and force pushes for adding review
changes is the recommend method for contributing to the project, but it
can cause some unexpected behavior from GitHub.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
A new role :zephyr_file: is available that renders to a link to the file
or folder in GitHub. Find appropriate references using :file: and
convert to :zephyr_file: to take advantage of its linking capability.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Running checkpatch in pre-commit hook could be a constraint
for day to day work. Though, running it before pushing to
zephyr repo is highly recommended.
Add a series push script callable from pre-push hook.
Document how to use it in contribute section.
Signed-off-by: Erwan Gouriou <erwan.gouriou@linaro.org>
Overhaul the west documentation so that it matches the model that is
currently implemented in the west repository.
This model is no longer subject to change in the short or mid term,
since it has been selected as the only viable one for multi-repo
management using west.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Since west is no longer included in the Zephyr repository, instruct
users to install and use west in order to obtain the Zephyr source code.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
Signed-off-by: Torsten Rasmussen <torsten.rasmussen@nordicsemi.no>
With the new theme we are able to have more section in the top level.
Move things around and expose the most important sections in the top
table of content.
Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
This converts the http links within the Zephyr document
into references. This allows the links within the PDF file
to jump to the correct sections instead of going to
the Internet.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Leung <daniel.leung@intel.com>
Simplify the CONTRIBUTING file seen when submitting a PR, make
references to the full contributing documentation, and merge the
contributing non-apache licensed material.
fixes: #6188
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
The following changes have been made to support out-of-tree builds:
* In order to avoid using relative hardcoded paths, use CMake's
configure_file() to replace the paths in the doxygen input file
so that the output directory is set correctly.
* All .rst and additional required files are now copied from the doc/
folder into the build/rst folder using extract_content.py. The
samples/ and boards/ folder are copied twice (once into build/rst
and another into build/doc/rst) to manage relative paths.
* All paths are absolute where possible, including themes and static
content.
This patch ensures that the Zephyr repo is not contaminated by the
build at all.
Signed-off-by: Carles Cufi <carles.cufi@nordicsemi.no>
I've collected some of the common issues encountered with doc reviews
into a new contributing document, and included use of the
Zephyr-specific extension for generating code building examples.
Updated conf.py and created an external list of substitutions making it
easier to manage them without editing the sphinx conf file (and
documented this).
Tweaked the comments in the application.py extension python code to
render better in the generated doc that extracts these comments (keeps
the documentation in the python code too to ease maintenance when
updates are made).
Updated the sample template to mention use of this sphinx extension.
fixes: #6831fixes: #6811
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
A recent LF change to the Zephyr mailing list hosting software changed
the mailing list names and links to the message archives.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Add contribution process for including non-Apache 2.0 components
as approved by the TSC. Include a README template that lists
information requested by the TSC and governing board for review.
Add a brief mention in the CONTRIBUTING link that appears when
submitting a new PR or Issue via the GitHub web interface.
Included an introduction to the process steps that includes using the
zephyr devel mailing list to discuss new components.
fixes#1543
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
While we're working on doc publishing that separates
kernel docs that are release-specific from project docs
that aren't, (temporarily) put the security documents
here so they'll be published with the 1.9 release.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
ReST defines interpreted text roles where text enclosed by single quotes
can be "intrepreted", for example :ref:`some name` becomes a link to
a label anywhere in the doc set named "some name", :c:func:`funcname()`
becomes a link to the API documentation for "funcname", and
:option:`CONFIG_NAME` becomes a link to, in our case, the documentation
for the generated Kconfig option.
This patch fixes uses of `some name` (without a role) by either adding
an explicit role, or changing to ``some name``, which indicates inline
code block formatting (most likely what was intended).
This is a precursor to changing the default behavior of interpreted
text to treat `some name` as :any:`some name` (as configured in
doc/conf.py), which would attempt to create a link to any available
definition of "some name".
We may not change this default role behavior, but it becomes an option
after the fixes in this patch. In any case, this patch fixes incorrect
uses of single-quoted text (possibly introduced because GitHub's
markdown language uses single-quoted text for inline code formatting).
Jira: ZEP-2414
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
GitHub notices a CONTRIBUTING file in a repo's root and will
automatically
add a link to this file on the page when a contributor creates an Issue
or opens a Pull Request. (Expectation is CONTRIBUTING will have
information about how to contribute to the project, format code,
test fixes, and submit patches.
We also want to have this document accessible from our technical docs,
and not duplicate the content, so add linkage to make this work.
The zephyrproject github wiki article that contributed to this new
CONTRIBUTING doc will be made into a reference to this new doc once
this PR is approved and merged.
Replaces PR #929
Jira: ZEP-2085
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
More general spelling fixes, and cleaning up stray UTF-8 characters
such as curly-quotes, em- and en-dashes. Use replacement strings
for |reg| and |trade|.
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
Initial version of some document to capture the secure coding
practices used in the Zephyr project.
Signed-off-by: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Change-Id: Ic20546a7af832dc7bd193eb91ed44f1badc3ab87
Contributor documents are moved to the wiki.zephyrproject.org site
Three references in existing documents updated to point to the wiki.
Change-Id: Ib902b9596020722cf8fec2fc064725f7406297ff
Signed-off-by: David B. Kinder <david.b.kinder@intel.com>
A workaround used to silence a warning in the doc generation process
which involved tagging a structure with a #define can now be solved
with a cleaner approach which is non-code-invasive.
Backup said change and update documentation on what to do when the
issue is found.
Change-Id: I1ef5224cd1b2df2e57c2ace438dba90ba3fc8528
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Fix the omission of having bullets for the enumeration of options, as
it makes the formatting look properly vs just different lines.
Change-Id: I701f705bc03ccc2082439c3ea3c1b5053b2aac0a
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
In preparation for more strict guidelines on documentation, provide a
trouble shooting guide with the most common and obscure issues found.
The CI system will point to this guide to help committers upon doc
failures.
Change-Id: I386baea75dad0c82b58b23926e0bd32de8a0b249
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Fix with a workaround in unnamed unions / structs in bluetooth, i2c,
sensor and uart.
Current documentation parsers (sphinx under Doxygen) don't seem to
understand well unnamed structs / unions. They will not generate any
documentation for any documented members (see left side of
http://imgur.com/mcpBXWc).
A workaround is to make the parser think there is something like a
struct/union/enum name that is actually something with no effect to
the compiler.
Naming it with __unnamed_workaround__ ensures it is clear it is a
workaround while we wait for a final fix. It is #defined to be a NO-OP
to the compiler and rearrange the member documentation as *@param* so
we have some documentation that the non-worked around code fails to
document.
Anonymous structs/union that declare a variable are just given an
internal name.
Workarounds documented in the contribution guidelines.
Change-Id: I4d32cf444f3c5e7d2fb11581e4b41f80e93c9786
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Some function *typedefs* confuse the *Sphynx* / *breathe* parser [see
the patch for full details]. Implement a workaround (defining the name
with @typedef), add workaround documentation and file a bug with the
sphinx/breathe developers.
Change-Id: I7f3dba4a53d0cc73e12f02511a5f85526f357b5f
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
Sphinx's parser gets all confused; add a workaround using @fn,
document the workaround in the contribution section; bug filed with
Sphinx for a permanent sollution.
Change-Id: I0200add092da27206b9d006bb13110c4cc37d0e4
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com>
