[Contiki-developers] Contiki goes Github

[Adam D. <ad...@th...>]

Hi all,

(tl;dr: Contiki finally moves to Github, fork the repository here:
https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki, guidelines for how to
contribute code here:
https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/wiki/Code-Contributions)

Contiki has always been an active open source project, but despite its
activity it has always been difficult to contribute code to the
project without being one of the project commiters. This has slowed
down progress and has caused Contiki to miss out on important
improvements. It is time for change.

For the past few months we have been discussing various ways to fix
this problem. Many were in favor of moving the Contiki project to
Github, but at the time, it seemed to us like Github projects required
that one dedicated person would be personally responsible for
maintaining the official repository, which would not have scaled very
well. We looked at other alternatives, like Gerrit/Jenkins, but they
required an infrastructure with servers to be set up and maintained,
which turned out to be prohibitive. So we took a second look at Github
and found that the organization feature of Github looked almost
exactly like what we needed.

And we decided to go with Github!

What this means for Contiki is that it now - finally - is possible to
submit patches and improvements to Contiki, have them reviewed, and
included into the mainline Contiki tree. We have set up an initial
process for this, but we expect to be changing it continuously as we
move forward.

The general idea is this: to submit patches to Contiki, first fork the
Contiki source code tree at Github. Then edit your fork, preferably by
placing your changes in a separate branch. Make sure to follow the
code style and naming guidelines. Submit a pull request for the branch
through the Github website to have it reviewed for potential
inclusion. If the patch is great, it gets merged into the Contiki
tree! Read all about the process here:
https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/wiki/Code-Contributions

Today Contiki takes an important step into its future. Be a part of
this future. Go to the Contiki Github page, create a Github user if
you don't have one, and fork the Contiki code:
https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki

Best regards,

/adam
-- 
Adam Dunkels, PhD
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