Merge pull request #5714 from alexischr/update_bockbuild

[mono.git] / CONTRIBUTING.md

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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ When contributing to the Mono project, please follow the [Mono Coding
 Guidelines][1].  We have been using a coding style for many years,
 please make your patches conform to these guidelines.
 
-[1] http://www.mono-project.com/Coding_Guidelines
+[1]: http://www.mono-project.com/community/contributing/coding-guidelines/
 
 Etiquette
 =========
@@ -21,29 +21,23 @@ investigate bugs, regressions and problems.
 License
 =======
 
-The Mono project uses the MIT X11, GNU LGPL version 2 and the Apache
-License 2.0.  We also imported some Microsoft code licensed under the
-open source Microsoft Public License.
+The Mono runtime, compilers, and tools and most of the class libraries
+are licensed under the MIT license. But include some bits of code
+licensed under different licenses. The exact list is [available here](https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/LICENSE).
 
 Different parts of Mono use different licenses.  The actual details of
 which licenses are used for which parts are detailed on the LICENSE
 file in this directory.
 
-When contributing code, make sure that your contribution falls under
-the appropriate license.  For example, contributions to code licensed
-under MIT/X11 code, should be MIT/X11 code.
+CLA
+=======
 
-The runtime (`mono/...`) is a special case.  The code is dual-licensed
-by Xamarin under both the GNU LGPL v2 license and is also available
-under commercial terms.  For the runtime, you should either sign an
-agreement that grants Xamarin the rights to relicense your code under
-other licenses other than the LGPL v2 or your contribution must be
-made as an MIT/X11 license which grants us the same rights, but
-involves no paperwork.  For the latter case, please specify on your
-commit(s) that you are licensing the changes under MIT/X11.
+Contributions are now taken under the [.NET Foundation CLA](https://cla2.dotnetfoundation.org/).
 
-For other parts of the project that are dual-licensed, please state
-on your commit(s) what license you are contributing the changes under.
+Code Review
+=======
+We are requiring code reviews before merging a pull request.
+GitHub won't let you merge a PR until someone from the Mono team approves it.
 
 Testing
 =======
@@ -68,4 +62,17 @@ status of your pull request. If it succeeded and we like the changes,
 a maintainer will likely merge it. Otherwise, you can amend your pull
 request to fix build breakage and Jenkins will test it again.
 
-[2] http://monojenkins.cloudapp.net
+[2]: http://jenkins.mono-project.com/
+
+# Inactivity
+
+Occasionally, a pull request sits for several months without any
+response from the author. This isn't necessarily an issue, but we may
+sometimes decide to close pull requests that have not seen any
+progress for a long time. This is in interest of keeping the pull
+request list clean so that other pull requests don't get lost in the
+clutter.
+
+If we do close your pull request due to inactivity, you're more than
+welcome to submit it anew after you address any comments or issues that
+were brought up on the original pull request.