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Last Update: | Fri Aug 17 15:33:29 +0000 2012 |
We welcome your contributions to Net::LDAP. We accept most contributions, but there are ways to increase the chance of your patch being accepted quickly.
Net::LDAP 0.2 and later are be licensed under an MIT-style license; any contributions after 2010-04-20 must be under this license to be accepted.
We welcome your contributions to Net::LDAP. To increase the chances of your patches being accepted, we recommend that you follow the guidelines below:
It is very important that, if you add new methods or objects, your code is well-documented. The purpose of the changes should be clearly described so that even if this is a feature we do not use, we can understand its purpose.
We also encourage documentation-only contributions that improve the documentation of Net::LDAP.
We encourage you to provide a good summary of your as a modification to +History.rdoc+, and if you‘re not yet named as a contributor, include a modification to +Contributors.rdoc+ to add yourself.
The Net::LDAP team uses RSpec for unit testing; all changes must have rspec tests for any new or changed features.
Your changes should have been tested against at least one real LDAP server; the current tests are not sufficient to find all possible bugs. It‘s unlikely that they will ever be sufficient given the variations in LDAP server behaviour.
If you‘re introducing a new feature, it would be preferred for you to provide us with a sample LDIF data file for importing into LDAP servers for testing.
Net::LDAP uses several libraries during development, all of which can be installed using RubyGems.