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Contributing to ni-apis

Contributions to ni-apis are welcome from all!

ni-apis is managed via git, with the canonical upstream repository hosted on GitHub.

ni-apis follows a pull-request model for development. If you wish to contribute, you will need to create a GitHub account, fork this project, push a branch with your changes to your project, and then submit a pull request.

Please remember to sign off your commits (e.g., by using git commit -s if you are using the command line client). This amends your git commit message with a line of the form Signed-off-by: Name Lastname <name.lastmail@emailaddress.com>. Please include all authors of any given commit into the commit message with a Signed-off-by line. This indicates that you have read and signed the Developer Certificate of Origin (see below) and are able to legally submit your code to this repository.

See GitHub's official documentation for more details.

Getting Started

This repo is source-only. Simply clone the repo locally to get the source with a command such as

git clone https://github.com/ni/ni-apis.git

Testing

All testing is done by various GitHub workflows during the PR process. There are no tests to run before submitting.

Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I have the right to submit it under the open source license indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the same open source license (unless I am permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved.

(taken from developercertificate.org)

See LICENSE for details about how ni-apis is licensed.