Note: This text is freely inspired by the Contribution.md <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/astropy/astropy/main/CONTRIBUTING.md>
file of the Astropy project.
When opening an issue to report a problem or request for a new feature, please try to provide a minimal code
example that reproduces the issue along with details of the operating system and Gammapy version you are using.
So you are interested in contributing to the Gammapy Project? Excellent! We love contributions! Gammapy is open source, built on open source, and we'd love to have you hang out in our community.
Most contributions to Gammapy are done via pull requests from GitHub users' forks of the gammapy repository. If you are new to this style of development, you will want to read over our Developer guide.
Even in the Open Source landscape, promoting the work of any is not only natural but also a duty for the Gammapy leading parties. We are taking care that each contribution is correctly awarded for each product of the Gammapy project.
An Authorship Policy
has been settled of each type of products (releases, papers, conferences). Note that each code release
(LTS, feature release or bug release) will be published with an official DOI (though the
Zenodo deposit) that you can use as an Open Science publication. This publication
is associated with a list of authors stored into our metada files (CITATION.cff and codemeta.json).
In order to properly build the authors list with you as contributor, Gammapy is using the so-called Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). This is a lightweight way for contributors to certify that they wrote or otherwise have the right to submit the code they are contributing to the project. The used DCO is from the Linux Foundation and can be found below. The practical acceptation of our DCO can be found here.
Developer Certificate of Origin Version 1.1
Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1
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) 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.