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<!--{
	"Title": "Contribution Guidelines"
}-->

<h2 id="Introduction">Introduction</h2>

<p>
This document explains how to contribute changes to the Go project.
It assumes you have installed Go using the
<a href="/doc/install/source">installation instructions</a> and
have <a href="code.html">written and tested your code</a>.
(Note that the <code>gccgo</code> frontend lives elsewhere;
see <a href="gccgo_contribute.html">Contributing to gccgo</a>.)
</p>

<h2 id="Design">Discuss your design</h2>

<p>
The project welcomes submissions but please let everyone know what
you're working on if you want it to become part of the main repository.
</p>

<p>
Before undertaking to write something new for the Go project, send
mail to the <a href="https://groups.google.com/group/golang-nuts">mailing
list</a> to discuss what you plan to do.  This gives everyone a
chance to validate the design, helps prevent duplication of effort,
and ensures that the idea fits inside the goals for the language
and tools.  It also guarantees that the design is sound before code
is written; the code review tool is not the place for high-level
discussions.
</p>

<p>
In short, send mail before you code.
And don't start the discussion by mailing a change list!
</p>

<h2 id="Testing">Testing redux</h2>

<p>
You've <a href="code.html">written and tested your code</a>, but
before sending code out for review, run all the tests for the whole
tree to make sure the changes don't break other packages or programs:
</p>

<pre>
$ cd go/src
$ ./all.bash
</pre>

<p>
(To build under Windows use <code>all.bat</code>.)
</p>

<p>
After running for a while, the command should print "<code>ALL TESTS PASSED</code>".
</p>

<h2 id="Code_review">Code review</h2>

<p>
Changes to Go must be reviewed before they are submitted,
no matter who makes the change.
(In exceptional cases, such as fixing a build, the review can
follow shortly after submitting.)
A Mercurial extension helps manage the code review process.
The extension is included in the Go source tree but needs
to be added to your Mercurial configuration.
</p>

<h3>Caveat for Mercurial aficionados</h3>

<p>
<i>Using Mercurial with the code review extension is not the same
as using standard Mercurial.</i>
</p>

<p>
The Go repository is maintained as a single line of reviewed changes;
we prefer to avoid the complexity of Mercurial's arbitrary change graph.
The code review extension helps here: its <code>hg submit</code> command
automatically checks for and warns about the local repository
being out of date compared to the remote one.
The <code>hg submit</code> command also verifies other
properties about the Go repository.
For example,
it checks that Go code being checked in is formatted in the standard style,
as defined by <a href="/cmd/gofmt">gofmt</a>,
and it checks that the author of the code is properly recorded for
<a href="#copyright">copyright purposes</a>.
</p>

<p>
To help ensure changes are only created by <code>hg submit</code>,
the code review extension disables the standard <code>hg commit</code>
command.
</p>

<h3>Configure the extension</h3>

<p>Edit <code>.hg/hgrc</code> in the root of your Go checkout to add:</p>

<pre>
[extensions]
codereview = /path/to/go/lib/codereview/codereview.py

[ui]
username = Your Name &lt;you@server.dom&gt;
</pre>

<p>
The <code>username</code> information will not be used unless
you are a committer (see below), but Mercurial complains if it is missing.
</p>

<p>
As the codereview extension is only enabled for your Go checkout, the remainder of this document assumes you
are inside the go directory when issuing commands.
</p>

<p>To contribute to subrepositories, edit the <code>.hg/hgrc</code> for each
subrepository in the same way. For example, add the codereview extension to
<code>code.google.com/p/go.tools/.hg/hgrc</code>.
</p>

<h3>Understanding the extension</h3>

<p>After adding the code review extension, you can run</p>

<pre>
$ hg help codereview
</pre>

<p>to learn more about its commands. To learn about a specific code-review-specific
command such as <code>change</code>, run</p>

<pre>
$ hg help change
</pre>

<p>
Windows users may need to perform extra steps to get the code review
extension working. See the
<a href="https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReview">CodeReview page</a>
on the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki">Go Wiki</a> for details.
</p>

<h3>Log in to the code review site.</h3>

<p>
The code review server uses a Google Account to authenticate.
(If you can use the account to
<a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/Login?hl=en&amp;continue=http://www.google.com/">sign in at google.com</a>,
you can use it to sign in to the code review server.)
The email address you use on the Code Review site
will be recorded in the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/go/source/list">Mercurial change log</a>
and in the <a href="/CONTRIBUTORS"><code>CONTRIBUTORS</code></a> file.
You can <a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount">create a Google Account</a>
associated with any address where you receive email.
If you've enabled the two-step verification feature, don't forget to generate an
application-specific password and use that when prompted for a password.
</p>

<pre>
$ hg code-login
Email (login for uploading to codereview.appspot.com): rsc@golang.org
Password for rsc@golang.org:

Saving authentication cookies to /Users/rsc/.codereview_upload_cookies_codereview.appspot.com
</pre>

<h3>Configure your account settings.</h3>

<p>Edit your <a href="https://codereview.appspot.com/settings">code review settings</a>.
Grab a nickname.
Many people prefer to set the Context option to
&ldquo;Whole file&rdquo; to see more context when reviewing changes.
</p>

<p>Once you have chosen a nickname in the settings page, others
can use that nickname as a shorthand for naming reviewers and the CC list.
For example, <code>rsc</code> is an alias for <code>rsc@golang.org</code>.
</p>

<h3>Switch to the default branch</h3>

<p>
Most Go installations use a release branch, but new changes should
only be made to the default branch. (They may be applied later to a release
branch as part of the release process.)
Before making a change, make sure you use the default branch:
</p>

<pre>
$ hg update default
</pre>

<h3>Make a change</h3>

<p>
The entire checked-out tree is writable.
If you need to edit files, just edit them: Mercurial will figure out which ones changed.
You do need to inform Mercurial of added, removed, copied, or renamed files,
by running
<code>hg add</code>,
<code>hg rm</code>,
<code>hg cp</code>,
or
<code>hg mv</code>.
</p>

<p>When you are ready to send a change out for review, run</p>

<pre>
$ hg change
</pre>

<p>from any directory in your Go repository.
Mercurial will open a change description file in your editor.
(It uses the editor named by the <code>$EDITOR</code> environment variable, <code>vi</code> by default.)
The file will look like:
</p>

<pre>
# Change list.
# Lines beginning with # are ignored.
# Multi-line values should be indented.

Reviewer:
CC:

Description:
	&lt;enter description here&gt;

Files:
	src/math/sin.go
	src/math/tan.go
	src/regexp/regexp.go
</pre>

<p>
The <code>Reviewer</code> line lists the reviewers assigned
to this change, and the <code>CC</code> line lists people to
notify about the change.
These can be code review nicknames or arbitrary email addresses.
Unless explicitly told otherwise, such as in the discussion leading
up to sending in the change list, leave the reviewer field blank.
This means that the
<a href="https://groups.google.com/group/golang-codereviews">golang-codereviews@googlegroups.com</a>
mailing list will be used as the reviewer.
</p>

<p>
Replace &ldquo;<code>&lt;enter description here&gt;</code>&rdquo;
with a description of your change.
The first line of the change description is conventionally a one-line
summary of the change, prefixed by the primary affected package,
and is used as the subject for code review mail; the rest of the
description elaborates.
</p>

<p>
The <code>Files</code> section lists all the modified files
in your client.
It is best to keep unrelated changes in different change lists.
In this example, we can include just the changes to package <code>math</code>
by deleting the line mentioning <code>regexp.go</code>.
</p>

<p>
After editing, the template might now read:
</p>

<pre>
# Change list.
# Lines beginning with # are ignored.
# Multi-line values should be indented.

Reviewer: golang-codereviews@googlegroups.com
CC: math-nuts@swtch.com

Description:
	math: improved Sin, Cos and Tan precision for very large arguments.

	See Bimmler and Shaney, ``Extreme sinusoids,'' J. Math 3(14).
	Fixes issue 159.

Files:
	src/math/sin.go
	src/math/tan.go
</pre>

<p>
The special sentence &ldquo;Fixes issue 159.&rdquo; associates
the change with issue 159 in the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/list">Go issue tracker</a>.
When this change is eventually submitted, the issue
tracker will automatically mark the issue as fixed.
(These conventions are described in detail by the
<a href="https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/IssueTracker#Integration_with_version_control">Google Project Hosting Issue Tracker documentation</a>.)
</p>

<p>
Save the file and exit the editor.</p>

<p>
The code review server assigns your change an issue number and URL,
which <code>hg change</code> will print, something like:
</p>

<pre>
CL created: https://codereview.appspot.com/99999
</pre>

<h3>Mail the change for review</h3>

<p>
Creating or uploading the change uploads a copy of the diff to the code review server,
but it does not notify anyone about it. To do that, you need to run <code>hg mail</code>
(see below).
</p>

<p>To send out a change for review, run <code>hg mail</code> using the change list number
assigned during <code>hg change</code>:</p>

<pre>
$ hg mail 99999
</pre>

<p>You can add to the <code>Reviewer:</code> and <code>CC:</code> lines
using the <code>-r</code> or <code>--cc</code> options.
In the above example, we could have left the <code>Reviewer</code> and <code>CC</code>
lines blank and then run:
</p>

<pre>
$ hg mail -r golang-codereviews@googlegroups.com --cc math-nuts@swtch.com 99999
</pre>

<p>to achieve the same effect.</p>

<p>Note that <code>-r</code> and <code>--cc</code> cannot be spelled <code>--r</code> or <code>-cc</code>.</p>

<p>
If your change relates to an open issue, please add a comment to the issue
announcing your proposed fix, including a link to your CL.
</p>

<h3>Reviewing code</h3>

<p>
Running <code>hg mail</code> will send an email to you and the reviewers
asking them to visit the issue's URL and make comments on the change.
When done, the reviewer clicks &ldquo;Publish and Mail comments&rdquo;
to send comments back.
</p>


<h3>Revise and upload</h3>

<p>
When you have revised the code and are ready for another round of review,
you can upload your change and send mail asking the reviewers to
please take another look (<code>PTAL</code>). Use the change list number
assigned during <code>hg change</code>
</p>

<pre>
$ hg mail 99999
</pre>


<p>
Or to upload your change without sending a notification, run
</p>

<pre>
$ hg upload 99999
</pre>

<p>
You will probably revise your code in response to the reviewer comments.
You might also visit the code review web page and reply to the comments,
letting the reviewer know that you've addressed them or explain why you
haven't.  When you're done replying, click &ldquo;Publish and Mail comments&rdquo;
to send the line-by-line replies and any other comments.
</p>

<p>
The reviewer can comment on the new copy, and the process repeats.
The reviewer approves the change by replying with a mail that says
<code>LGTM</code>: looks good to me.
</p>

<p>
You can see a list of your pending changes by running <code>hg pending</code> (<code>hg p</code> for short).
</p>

<h3>Adding or removing files from an existing change</h3>

<p>
If you need to re-edit the change description, or change the files included in the CL,
run <code>hg change 99999</code>.
</p>

<p>
Alternatively, you can use
</p>

<pre>
$ hg file 99999 somefile
</pre>

<p>
to add <code>somefile</code> to CL 99999, and
</p>

<pre>
$ hg file -d 99999 somefile
</pre>

<p>
to remove <code>somefile</code> from the CL.
</p>

<p>
A file may only belong to a single active CL at a time. <code>hg file</code>
will issue a warning if a file is moved between changes.
</p>

<h3>Synchronize your client</h3>

<p>While you were working, others might have submitted changes
to the repository.  To update your client, run</p>

<pre>
$ hg sync
</pre>

<p>(For Mercurial fans, <code>hg sync</code> runs <code>hg pull -u</code>
but then also synchronizes the local change list state against the new data.)</p>

<p>
If files you were editing have changed, Mercurial does its best to merge the
remote changes into your local changes.  It may leave some files to merge by hand.
</p>

<p>
For example, suppose you have edited <code>flag_test.go</code> but
someone else has committed an independent change.
When you run <code>hg sync</code>, you will get the (scary-looking) output
(emphasis added):

<pre>
$ hg sync
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 1 changeset with 2 changes to 2 files
getting src/flag/flag.go
couldn't find merge tool hgmerge
merging src/flag/flag_test.go
warning: conflicts during merge.
<i>merging src/flag/flag_test.go failed!</i>
1 file updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 1 file unresolved
use 'hg resolve' to retry unresolved file merges
$
</pre>

<p>
The only important part in that transcript is the italicized line:
Mercurial failed to merge your changes with the independent change.
When this happens, Mercurial leaves both edits in the file,
marked by <code>&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;</code> and
<code>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;</code>.
It is now your job to edit the file to combine them.
Continuing the example, searching for those strings in <code>flag_test.go</code>
might turn up:
</p>

<pre>
	VisitAll(visitor);
&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; local
	if len(m) != 7 {
=======
	if len(m) != 8 {
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; other
		t.Error("VisitAll misses some flags");
</pre>

<p>
Mercurial doesn't show it, but suppose the original text that both edits
started with was 6; you added 1 and the other change added 2,
so the correct answer might now be 9.  First, edit the section
to remove the markers and leave the correct code:
</p>

<pre>
	VisitAll(visitor);
	if len(m) != 9 {
		t.Error("VisitAll misses some flags");
</pre>

<p>
Then ask Mercurial to mark the conflict as resolved:
</p>

<pre>
$ hg resolve -m flag_test.go
</pre>

<p>
If you had been editing the file, say for debugging, but do not
care to preserve your changes, you can run
<code>hg revert flag_test.go</code> to abandon your
changes, but you may still need to run
<code>hg resolve -m</code> to mark the conflict resolved.
</p>

<h3>Reviewing code by others</h3>

<p>
You can import a CL proposed by someone else into your local Mercurial client
by using the <code>hg clpatch</code> command. Running
</p>

<pre>
$ hg clpatch 99999
</pre>

<p>
will apply the latest diff for CL 99999 to your working copy. If any of the
files referenced in CL 99999 have local modifications, <code>clpatch</code>
will refuse to apply the whole diff. Once applied, CL 99999 will show up in
the output of <code>hg pending</code> and others.
</p>

<p>
To revert a CL you have applied locally, use the <code>hg revert</code>
command. Running
</p>

<pre>
$ hg revert @99999
</pre>

<p>
will revert any files mentioned on CL 99999 to their original state. This can
be an effective way of reverting one CL revision and applying another.
</p>

<p>
Once the CL has been submitted, the next time you run <code>hg sync</code>
it will be removed from your local pending list. Occasionally the pending list
can get out of sync leaving stale references to closed or abandoned CLs.
You can use <code>hg change -D 99999</code> to remove the reference to CL 99999.
</p>

<h3>Submit the change after the review</h3>

<p>
After the code has been <code>LGTM</code>'ed, it is time to submit
it to the Mercurial repository.
</p>

<p>
If you are not a committer, you cannot submit the change directly.
Instead a committer, usually the reviewer who said <code>LGTM</code>,
will run:
</p>

<pre>
$ hg clpatch 99999
$ hg submit 99999
</pre>

<p>
The <code>submit</code> command submits the code.  You will be listed as the
author, but the change message will also indicate who the committer was.
Your local client will notice that the change has been submitted
when you next run <code>hg sync</code>.
</p>

<p>
If you are a committer, you can run:
</p>

<pre>
$ hg submit 99999
</pre>

<p>
This checks the change into the repository.
The change description will include a link to the code review,
and the code review will be updated with a link to the change
in the repository.
</p>

<p>
If your local copy of the repository is out of date,
<code>hg submit</code> will refuse the change:
</p>

<pre>
$ hg submit 99999
local repository out of date; must sync before submit
</pre>

<h3>More information</h3>

<p>
In addition to the information here, the Go community maintains a <a href="https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReview">CodeReview</a> wiki page.
Feel free to contribute to this page as you learn the review process.
</p>

<h2 id="copyright">Copyright</h2>

<p>Files in the Go repository don't list author names,
both to avoid clutter and to avoid having to keep the lists up to date.
Instead, your name will appear in the <a href="https://code.google.com/p/go/source/list">Mercurial change log</a>
and in the <a href="/CONTRIBUTORS"><code>CONTRIBUTORS</code></a> file
and perhaps the <a href="/AUTHORS"><code>AUTHORS</code></a> file.
</p>

<p>The <a href="/CONTRIBUTORS"><code>CONTRIBUTORS</code></a> file
defines who the Go contributors&mdash;the people&mdash;are;
the <a href="/AUTHORS"><code>AUTHORS</code></a> file defines
who &ldquo;The Go Authors&rdquo;&mdash;the copyright holders&mdash;are.
The Go developers at Google will update these files when submitting
your first change.
In order for them to do that, you need to have completed one of the
contributor license agreements:
<ul>
<li>
If you are the copyright holder, you will need to agree to the
<a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/individual">individual
contributor license agreement</a>, which can be completed online.
</li>
<li>
If your organization is the copyright holder, the organization
will need to agree to the
<a href="https://developers.google.com/open-source/cla/corporate">corporate
contributor license agreement</a>.
(If the copyright holder for your code has already completed the
agreement in connection with another Google open source project,
it does not need to be completed again.)
</li>
</ul>

<p>
This rigmarole needs to be done only for your first submission.
</p>

<p>Code that you contribute should use the standard copyright header:</p>

<pre>
// Copyright 2014 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
</pre>

<p>
Files in the repository are copyright the year they are added. It is not
necessary to update the copyright year on files that you change.
</p>