# Contributing to serde_gelf

This project accepts contributions. In order to contribute, you should pay attention to a few things:

1. your code must follow the coding style rules
2. your code must be unit-tested
3. your code must be documented
4. your work must be signed (see below)
5. you may contribute through GitHub Pull Requests

# Coding and documentation Style

This is a set of recommendations on how to design and present APIs for the Rust programming language. They are authored largely by the Rust library team, based on experiences building the Rust standard library and other crates in the Rust ecosystem.

[Read them here](https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/api-guidelines).

# Submitting Modifications

The contributions should be submitted through Github Pull Requests and follow the DCO which is defined below.

# Licensing for new files

serde_gelf is licensed under a Modified 3-Clause BSD license. Anything contributed to serde_gelf must be released under this license.

When introducing a new file into the project, please make sure it has a copyright header making clear under which license it's being released.

# Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO)

To improve tracking of contributions to this project we will use a process modeled on the modified DCO 1.1 and use a "sign-off" procedure on patches that are being emailed around or contributed in any other way.

The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as an open-source patch. The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the below:

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) The contribution is made free of any other party's intellectual property claims or rights.

(e) 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.

then you just add a line saying

```
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.org>
```

using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)