[Soot-list] Contributors notice

[Manuel Benz]

To all Soot contributors,

today we've introduced style guidelines for the Soot codebase. This should help us with making merging easy and preserving at least some standard to Soot's code quality. Therefore, we adopt a relaxed version of Google's code guide<https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html> that doesn’t require us to introduce breaking changes.

Future contributions to Soot will be checked against these guidelines and rejected if non-compliant. Thus, please make sure to check and fix your code before feeding it back into the codebase. Luckily, most of the coding style is related to code formatting and can be automatically applied.

We have prepared some documentation for this process. Please check out our contribution guidelines<https://github.com/Sable/soot/wiki/Contributing-to-Soot> for more details on how to contribute and conform to the style guide.

If you have forked Soot and need to merge back our (significant amount) of changes into your codebase, we've also prepared a list of steps<https://github.com/Sable/soot/wiki/Merging-changes-after-introduction-of-formatting-guidelines> to make this process as painless as possible.

If you have questions or miss some things in our documentation, let me know!

Best regards and (hopefully) happy contributing,
Manuel



Manuel Benz, M. Sc., M. Sc.
Heinz Nixdorf Institut
Universität Paderborn
Softwaretechnik
Fürstenallee 11
33102 Paderborn
Raum F1.119
Tel: +49 5251 606567
Fax: +49 5251 606565
Mail: manuel.benz at upb.de<mailto:manuel.benz at upb.de>
Web: https://hni.uni-paderborn.de/swt/

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