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Guidelines
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When contributing to the Mono project, please follow the [Mono Coding
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Guidelines][1]. We have been using a coding style for many years,
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please make your patches conform to these guidelines.
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[1]: http://www.mono-project.com/community/contributing/coding-guidelines/
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Etiquette
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=========
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In general, we do not accept patches that merely shuffle code around,
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split classes in multiple files, reindent the code or are the result
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of running a refactoring tool on the source code. This is done for
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three reasons: (a) we have our own coding guidelines; (b) Some modules
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are imported from upstream sources and we want to respect their coding
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guidelines and (c) it destroys valuable history that is often used to
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investigate bugs, regressions and problems.
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License
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The Mono runtime, compilers, and tools and most of the class libraries
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are licensed under the MIT license. But include some bits of code
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licensed under different licenses. The exact list is [available here] (https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/LICENSE).
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Different parts of Mono use different licenses. The actual details of
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which licenses are used for which parts are detailed on the LICENSE
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file in this directory.
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CLA
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Contributions are now taken under the [.NET Foundation CLA] (https://cla2.dotnetfoundation.org/).
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Testing
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Pull requests go through testing on our [Jenkins server][2]. We will
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usually only merge a pull request if it causes no regressions in a
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test run there.
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When you submit a pull request, one of two things happens:
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* If you are a new contributor, Jenkins will ask for permissions (on
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the pull request) to test it. A maintainer will reply to approve
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the test run if they find the patch appropriate. After you have
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submitted a few patches, a maintainer will whitelist you so that
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all of your future pull requests are tested automatically.
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* If you are a well-known, whitelisted contributor, Jenkins will go
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ahead and test your pull request as soon as a test machine is
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available.
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When your pull request has been built, Jenkins will update the build
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status of your pull request. If it succeeded and we like the changes,
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a maintainer will likely merge it. Otherwise, you can amend your pull
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request to fix build breakage and Jenkins will test it again.
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[2]: http://jenkins.mono-project.com/
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# Inactivity
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Occasionally, a pull request sits for several months without any
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response from the author. This isn't necessarily an issue, but we may
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sometimes decide to close pull requests that have not seen any
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progress for a long time. This is in interest of keeping the pull
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request list clean so that other pull requests don't get lost in the
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clutter.
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If we do close your pull request due to inactivity, you're more than
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welcome to submit it anew after you address any comments or issues that
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were brought up on the original pull request.
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