openssl/CONTRIBUTING.md, branch dependabot/github_actions/actions/setup-python-7

Modernize and update STYLE.MD, add DOCUMENTATION.MD

2026-07-10T15:37:03Z

So this repatriates DOCUMENTATION.MD from the web page to the code base, and links both STYLE.MD and DOCUMENTATION.MD from CONTRIBUTING.MD It does a large rototilling of STYLE.MD to address many of the outstanding concerns noted when I started this before clang-format last year, and brings us roughly in line with the things that are addressed in similar style guides for other projects. Most of the changed or updated reccomendations reflect what we currently have been doing, or have expressed as a desire to move to in the future. Most larger "OpenSSL-isms" I've tried to explicitly call out to make this a more cohesive and useful guide for a new contributor Reviewed-by: Neil Horman Reviewed-by: Milan Broz MergeDate: Fri Jul 10 15:37:16 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/29295)

Add a STYLE.md file and link it from CONTRIBUTING.md

2026-07-10T15:37:03Z

This is effectively, the current coding style policy web page changed to accomodate clang-format. This is more or less the same file I have had in the various clang-format sample PR's since September. It does include an additional sections on Integers and on Return Values that are not in the original coding style policy It is changed from the September version in that it does not have mention of keeping include files self contained. I believe that is achievable and desirable, but I think should be done as a separate change from this. There were a number of issues brought up in discussion of this file in the clang-format PR's. I recorded those in 818, 819, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, and 826, which we can link in there to the appropriate section of the document. Reviewed-by: Neil Horman Reviewed-by: Milan Broz MergeDate: Fri Jul 10 15:37:13 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/29295)

CONTRIBUTING.md: tweak wording with regards to ML tooling usage

2026-06-25T07:22:23Z

ML tools do not satisfy the authorship requirement, so they are merely used, and not "create" on their own. Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov Reviewed-by: Paul Dale Reviewed-by: Kurt Roeckx MergeDate: Thu Jun 25 07:22:26 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/31643)

CONTRIBUTING.md: add the AI declaration policy

2026-06-22T10:35:38Z

References: https://github.com/openssl/general-policies/pull/85 Reviewed-by: Milan Broz Reviewed-by: Bob Beck Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson Reviewed-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov MergeDate: Mon Jun 22 10:36:52 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/31604)

Doc: Add additional information to the contributing page.

2026-03-13T08:28:17Z

Updates for new users related to PR's. Although some of this info is in other places, a new user should not need to look at 'commiter' related docs. Reviewed-by: Frederik Wedel-Heinen Reviewed-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov Reviewed-by: Paul Dale Reviewed-by: Tim Hudson MergeDate: Fri Mar 13 08:28:19 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/30336)

Add a note about commit message titles being 50-70 character in length

2026-02-28T14:04:32Z

Requested by @levitte in #30075 Reviewed-by: Richard Levitte Reviewed-by: Tom Cosgrove Reviewed-by: Neil Horman MergeDate: Sat Feb 28 14:04:35 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/30148)

Update documentation with guidelines for commit and PR messages

2026-02-24T00:07:49Z

The CONTRIBUTING.md and PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md files have been updated to include guidelines on what makes a desirable commit message and PR description. Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell Reviewed-by: Nikola Pajkovsky Reviewed-by: Tom Cosgrove (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/30075)

Update CONTRIBUTING.md for clang-format style

2026-02-03T09:07:23Z

The old Perl tool no longer exists, mention clang-format and utilities. Fixes: https://github.com/openssl/project/issues/1770 Signed-off-by: Milan Broz Reviewed-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz Reviewed-by: Saša Nedvědický MergeDate: Tue Feb 3 09:07:35 2026 (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/29755)

Serial submission policy

2025-10-17T17:39:07Z

Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/28897)

Use parent directory instead of index.html

2024-08-07T08:57:29Z

Reviewed-by: Neil Horman Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/25073)