Gaudi Contribution Guide

The Gaudi project is open source (see the LICENSE) and welcomes contributions from experiments and users.

To contribute to Gaudi development you can fork the project from CERN GitLab, where the Gaudi source is held.

Bug fixes and features should be developed in your own branch, then a merge request made back to the upstream Gaudi repository.

By submitting a merge request to the Gaudi repository you agree that your contribution will be copyrighted to CERN and covered by the Apache 2 licence, as per the LICENSE.

AI coding assistants

The use of AI tools is permitted under the following conditions:

• The developer is responsible for reviewing all AI-generated code and ensuring compliance with licensing requirements.

• Commits with significant contributions from AI tools should have a commit trailer of the form Assisted-by: [LLM name/version].

• The same note (or similar attribution) should also be added to the merge request description.

• Comments on merge requests generated by AI tools should be clearly marked as such (e.g. as a quote).

Coding Style Guidelines

Code contributions to Gaudi should adhere to the clang-format rules (an automatic check is part of the Continuous Integration system).