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| 1 Introduction
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| This document describes some guidelines for people participating
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| in lwIP development.
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| 
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| 2 How to contribute to lwIP
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| 
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| Here is a short list of suggestions to anybody working with lwIP and 
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| trying to contribute bug reports, fixes, enhancements, platform ports etc.
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| First of all as you may already know lwIP is a volunteer project so feedback
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| to fixes or questions might often come late. Hopefully the bug and patch tracking 
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| features of Savannah help us not lose users' input.
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| 
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| 2.1 Source code style:
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| 
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| 1. do not use tabs.
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| 2. indentation is two spaces per level (i.e. per tab).
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| 3. end debug messages with a trailing newline (\n).
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| 4. one space between keyword and opening bracket.
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| 5. no space between function and opening bracket.
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| 6. one space and no newline before opening curly braces of a block.
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| 7. closing curly brace on a single line.
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| 8. spaces surrounding assignment and comparisons.
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| 9. don't initialize static and/or global variables to zero, the compiler takes care of that.
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| 10. use current source code style as further reference.
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| 
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| 2.2 Source code documentation style:
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| 1. JavaDoc compliant and Doxygen compatible.
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| 2. Function documentation above functions in .c files, not .h files.
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|    (This forces you to synchronize documentation and implementation.)
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| 3. Use current documentation style as further reference.
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|  
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| 2.3 Bug reports and patches:
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| 
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| 1. Make sure you are reporting bugs or send patches against the latest
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|    sources. (From the latest release and/or the current Git sources.)
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| 2. If you think you found a bug make sure it's not already filed in the
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|    bugtracker at Savannah.
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| 3. If you have a fix put the patch on Savannah. If it is a patch that affects
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|    both core and arch specific stuff please separate them so that the core can
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|    be applied separately while leaving the other patch 'open'. The preferred way
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|    is to NOT touch archs you can't test and let maintainers take care of them.
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|    This is a good way to see if they are used at all - the same goes for unix
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|    netifs except tapif.
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| 4. Do not file a bug and post a fix to it to the patch area. Either a bug report
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|    or a patch will be enough.
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|    If you correct an existing bug then attach the patch to the bug rather than creating a new entry in the patch area.
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| 5. Patches should be specific to a single change or to related changes. Do not mix bugfixes with spelling and other
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|    trivial fixes unless the bugfix is trivial too. Do not reorganize code and rename identifiers in the same patch you
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|    change behaviour if not necessary. A patch is easier to read and understand if it's to the point and short than
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|    if it's not to the point and long :) so the chances for it to be applied are greater. 
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| 
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| 2.4 Platform porters:
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| 1. If you have ported lwIP to a platform (an OS, a uC/processor or a combination of these) and
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|    you think it could benefit others[1] you might want discuss this on the mailing list. You
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|    can also ask for Git access to submit and maintain your port in the contrib Git module.
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