Contributing to SystemDS

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to SystemDS!

The following are mostly guidelines, not rules. Use your best judgment, and feel free to propose changes to this document in a pull request.


Code Style

Before contributing a pull request, we highly suggest applying a code formatter to the written code.

We have provided at profile for java located in Codestyle File ./docs/CodeStyle.eclipse.xml. This can be loaded in most editors e.g.:

License

Each file in the project has a header license, when adding files remember to add an appropriate comment for that filetype containing the license. One Example is this file: RAW Link. The specific type of commenting \** *\ or # ... varies depending on filetype, but the content is the same.

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Thanks again for taking your time to help improve SystemDS! :+1: