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Data Access Library (DAL) - Contributing
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External contributions in any form (comments, requests, issue reports, patches, ...) are welcome.
To keep a maintainable code base and not drift away from the goals of DAL, we may or may not include the changes as provided.
_NOTE_: By contributing to this project you certify that you have the right to submit the contribution under the open source license covering this project, and that you understand that a record of this contribution with any personal information provided along may be publicly available for many years and be redistributed with this project.
Contributing
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- Send patches by mail or enclosed in the issue report (plain text and inline, not attached), or with a pull request (easier merging and keeps patch author).
For more information on sending pull requests, see http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/
- Please notify us well before you are done (read: begin) developing a significant feature, so we can cooperate towards smooth inclusion and avoid needless (double or unmergeable) work.
- Split large changes into multiple small patches where each patch makes one _logical_ change.
Contribution Policy
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When receiving feature requests or other contributions to include, we consider the following:
- The contribution must be in line with the purpose of DAL, that is data access for LOFAR HDF5 data products.
- The contribution must be useful for enough users to warrant inclusion in a common library.
- The contribution must not significantly slow down frequently executed functionality.
- The request must be realistic given the man power resources we have for DAL, both to implement and to maintain.
Contact
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DAL issues can be reported through the github issue tracker.
Before reporting, make sure the issue is against the latest DAL and not already listed.
https://github.com/nextgen-astrodata/DAL/issues
For questions or comments about DAL, you can mail us directly and/or discuss with other users through the mailing list.
Subscribe to our 'nextgen-astrodata' list by sending the following single line in the message body (not Subject) to: majordomo AT astron DOT nl
subscribe nextgen-astrodata
After confirming the automatic reply, you can post by mailing to:
nextgen-astrodata AT astron DOT nl
Note: For questions about LOFAR or your data product, please contact ASTRON Science Support instead through:
sciencesupport AT astron DOT nl