How To Contribute

7 Contributing

MicroBenchmark is Free Software⁵: you can copy, distribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU LGPLv3, or any later version (see GNU Lesser General Public License.) That freedom makes possible the collaboration on equal grounds and leverages our collective effort to make better software available for everyone to:

• Use.
• learn from it.
• Modify to adapt it to their needs.
• Distribute the it, modified or not.

As such, contributions to the project are appreciated and encouraged.

There are plenty of things to be done and everybody should be able to contribute. Currently there is not much collective activity, but contact <bug-mbenchmark@nongnu.org> if you are interested on contributing. Your help is very welcome!

The following sections show how to report a bug of MicroBenchmark (see Reporting Bugs), how to send a patch for its inclusion into the repository (see Sending Patches), the coding guidelines followed by the project (see Coding Guidelines) and how the source code is physically structured on the project (see Source Code Organization.)

• Reporting Bugs
• Sending Patches
• Coding Guidelines
• Source Code Organization