MicroProfile/ContributingGuidelines

Guidelines for contributing to the MicroProfile project

Ways to contribute

• Propose ideas or give feedback in the MicroProfile Google Group (Forum)
• Submit a proposal for a new specification or improvement
• Create a pull request to existing repositories (before a PR can be accepted, its contributor must undergo Eclipse processes, mainly sign the Eclipse Foundation Contributor License Agreement
• Become a project committer (a contributor is nominated by one of the project committers and other committers vote about the nomination)

License of the contributed resources

All code and resources submitted via a pull request or directly (by a committer) should be licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0

License header

All files must include a license header. Moreover, a NOTICE file should exist for each repository. Author tags under a license header are optional and not mandated by the Eclipse foundation. It's strongly recommended to abide by the following templates:

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A license header (included in the beginning of each file):

/**********************************************************************
* Copyright (c) {DATE} Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation
 *
 * See the NOTICES file(s) distributed with this work for additional
 * information regarding copyright ownership.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
**********************************************************************/

{DATE} can either be a single year or a range of years separated by a comma.

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NOTICE file (in the root of each repository):

SPDXVersion: SPDX-2.1
PackageName: Eclipse Microprofile
PackageHomePage: http://www.eclipse.org/microprofile
PackageLicenseDeclared: Apache-2.0
 
PackageCopyrightText: <text>
{Legal Entity 1}
{Legal Entity 2}
{Legal Entity 3}
...
</text>

The NOTICE file also has to be included in all distribution artifacts (JAR, WAR, etc.).

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The templates were discussed with Eclipse mentors:

• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microprofile/sRqsnPTkkKE/V657wvPWAgAJ
• https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microprofile/jq-vH2RqZRw/zg1irCmoAAAJ