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Code of Conduct

We strive to maintain a welcoming community for all potential contributors. By participating, you are expected to uphold this ideal. A written code of conduct may be added in a later release. Please report any unacceptable behavior by emailing us here.

Bug reports

We track bugs, feature requests, and other issues on the project's issues page.

Code contributions

Do you have code you would like to contribute to SatCat5? We are able to accept small changes immediately and require a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) for larger changesets. Generally documentation and other minor changes less than 10 lines do not require a CLA.

Contributor License Agreement

The Aerospace Corporation CLA is based on the well-known Harmony Agreements CLA created by Canonical, and protects the rights of The Aerospace Corporation, our customers, and you as the contributor. You can find our CLA and further instructions here. Please complete the CLA and send us the executed copy.

Once a CLA is on file, we can accept pull requests on GitHub or GitLab.

If you have any questions, please e-mail us here.

Style Guidelines

A CERN-OHL-W copyright notice is required in all files where it is practical to include one.
We strive to maintain readable code. Please adhere to the following guidelines:
- Indent size four spaces, spaces only (no tab characters),
- No trailing spaces at end of line.
- Names such as "Tx" and "Rx" should usually refer to the switch FPGA context. (i.e., "Tx" should be an FPGA output.)
- (Python only) All public methods should include a triple-quoted docstring.
- (VHDL only) All reset signals indicate polarity (_p = Active High, _n = Active Low).
Whenever practical, all VHDL functional blocks should include an automated unit test:
- Test failures are indicated using "report" or "assert" statements with severity of "error" or higher.
- A comment at the top of the file should indicate the runtime required to complete the test.
- Add your unit test to the Jenkins shell script.
Whenever practical, all C++ functional blocks should include an automated unit test.
- Our unit tests use the Catch framework.
- Code coverage is analyzed using gcov and gcovr.

Copyright Notice

This file is a part of SatCat5, licensed under CERN-OHL-W v2 or later.

You may redistribute and modify SatCat5 and make products using it under the weakly reciprocal variant of the CERN Open Hardware License, version 2 or (at your option) any later weakly reciprocal version.

SatCat5 is distributed WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING OF MERCHANTABILITY, SATISFACTORY QUALITY, AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Please see (https:/cern.ch/cern-ohl) for applicable conditions.