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Revision as of 22:00, 22 November 2008
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These are the guidelines third party developers need to observe when contributing code to open source software maintained or distributed by Nokia in the Maemo platform:
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Contributions welcome!
The Maemo SW team at Nokia encourages revision and feedback of the open source components of the Maemo platform and related open source applications.
Sources
The sources of the Maemo platform and related Nokia developed open source applications are available at [URL with sources of lastest version].
Releases
The best timing for contributions is prior to the final version of a release. Alphas and betas are released for that purpose.
Early contributions on new releases are encouraged too, noting that UI changes might be difficult to be accepted because of design, localization, usability and end user testing implications.
Submissions
Bugfixes need to be referenced in existing or new bugs filed at http://bugs.maemo.org, including the keyword "Patch".
Developers can attach patches to the bug report or can host them in their own git directory at git.maemo.org (planned).
Upstream
Patches to software components developed upstream need to be submitted to their original projects.
It is recommended to notify in bugs.maemo.org the contribution to the related Maemo SW developers by providing URLs to the bug/patch submitted upstream. They might help pushing the patch and/or committing it to the Maemo related component.
If the upstream is not Maemo SW but another team at Nokia (for instance Qt SW) then their contribution guidelines prevail.
Quality
Software contributions need to take into account the Maemo quality considerations and coding style.
License
The simplest and most sensible license choosed for the patches submitted is the license used by the component patched.
Copyright
Developers of significant code contributions retain their copyrights and are credited.
Ideas or contributions below 15 lines are not considered subject to copyrights. For details see the definition of legally significant changes made by the GNU Project.