Contributing to ChibiOS/RT

[alexlesuper]

Hello,

I've been trying to find a place where I can get information on how to contribute code to this awesome project. My main interest in contributing to the hal and porting to different technologies. Would initiating a pull request on github be accepted?

Thanks,

Alex

[Tectu]

Back the days we agreed that we create a community repo. I promised to maintain it but there never was any real interest at the end as the most stuff gets contributed through the contributions section of this forum. However, I don't really mind keeping track on this idea, I'll hook up some sync script so you can send a pull request later.
The idea is that community members push to there and if many users need/like the contributions, Giovanni can put it into the main repo.


~ Tectu

[alexlesuper]

So if I initiate a pull request on the community repo on github, it might end up in the main repository if there is enough interest?

[Tectu]

In theory yes, that's correct. But at the end that's really up to Giovanni. Please make sure that you're aware of the copyright stuff when you're contributing.


~ Tectu

[Giovanni]

Hi,

The best way is to post in the contributions forum. Contributions can go into the trunk under certain conditions the main ones: conformance to the coding rules, maintainability, I cannot make "official" something I can't maintain or provide support for. Keep in mind that the ChibiOS core is a commercial product made available also as open source.

Depending on the nature of the contribution you may decide to support it yourself, I would gladly open a specific section in the forum.

As Tectu mentioned there was an idea of an open repository but it did not took off. I will return on this idea in the future, after releasing the version 3.0.

Giovanni

[efuentes]

Is there a list of things that need to be done?

[Tectu]

Is there a list of things that need to be done?

I'll create one soonâ„¢ ...


~ Tectu