Want to contribute? Great! First, read this page (including the small print at the end).
If your idea will take you more than, say, 30 minutes to implement, please get in touch first via the issue tracker to touch base about your plan. That will give an opportunity for early feedback and help avoid wasting your time.
Please add tests for any new features or bugfixes. Bloaty has a lot of functionality (different data sources, file formats, diff mode, hierarchical reports, etc). Having tests helps ensure that we don't regress any of these features.
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All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use Github pull requests for this purpose.
Before we can use your code, you must sign the Google Individual Contributor License Agreement (CLA), which you can do online. The CLA is necessary mainly because you own the copyright to your changes, even after your contribution becomes part of our codebase, so we need your permission to use and distribute your code. We also need to be sure of various other things—for instance that you'll tell us if you know that your code infringes on other people's patents. You don't have to sign the CLA until after you've submitted your code for review and a member has approved it, but you must do it before we can put your code into our codebase.
Contributions made by corporations are covered by a different agreement than the one above, the Software Grant and Corporate Contributor License Agreement.