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Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO).
You can sign-off a commit via git commit -s
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All submissions, including submissions by project members, require review. We use GitHub pull requests for this purpose. Make sure you've read, understood and considered all the points below before creating your PR.
C++ code should adhere to the
Google C++ Style Guide.
You can handle the formatting part of the style guide via git clang-format
.
When preparing your PR and also during the code review make sure to follow best practices. Most importantly, keep your PR under 200 lines of code and address a single concern.
- Add unit tests and documentation (these do not count toward your 200 lines).
- Run tests as appropriate, e.g.
docker build . -t cartographer:noetic -f Dockerfile.noetic
. - Keep rebasing (or merging) of master branch to a minimum. It triggers Travis runs for every update which blocks merging of other changes.