Spring Cloud is released under the non-restrictive Apache 2.0 license and follows a standard Github development process, using Github tracker for issues and merging pull requests into master. If you want to contribute even something trivial, please do not hesitate, but please do follow the guidelines spelled out in this section.
Before we accept a non-trivial patch or pull request, we need you to sign the contributor’s agreement. Signing the contributor’s agreement does not grant anyone commit rights to the main repository, but it does mean that we can accept your contributions. You will get an author credit if we do. Active contributors might be asked to join the core team and be given the ability to merge pull requests.
None of these conventions is essential for a pull request, but they all help. They can also be added after the original pull request but before a merge.
.java
files have a simple Javadoc class comment with at least an @author
tag identifying you and preferably at least a paragraph on what the class is for..java
files.
To do so, copy from existing files in the project.@author
to the .java
files that you modify substantially (more than cosmetic changes).Fixes gh-XXXX
at the end of the commit message (where XXXX is the issue number).