Contributing patches

Contributing source code patches or new files/features to LDMS

Licenses

Patches (bug fixes, minor refactoring) to existing files are accepted on the condition that they are provided to the project under the same license as the patched file(s).

LDMS is open source and includes a variety of 3rd party dependencies libraries under compatible licenses. Contribution of new plugins or other files are accepted on the condition that they document their open-source license and mark contributed files correspondingly.

Mechanics

Patches to the latest GA release (tag OVIS-4.3.3 as of Jan 7 2020) should be constructed as follows:

• fork the repository.
• create your patch branch based on branch OVIS-4.
• push your patch to your github fork.
• create a pull request for the OVIS-4 branch.

Patches to the development branch (master as of Jan 7 2020) should be constructed as follows:

• fork the repository.
• create your patch branch based on branch master(?).
• push your patch to your github fork.
• create a pull request.