Avocado Contributor’s Guide

Useful pointers on how to participate of the Avocado community and contribute.

• Brief introduction
• How can I contribute?
  • Report a bug
  • Suggest enhancements
  • Contribute with code
  • Share your tests
  • Documentation
• Development environment
  • Using a container
  • Installing dependencies
  • Installing in develop mode
  • GPG Signatures
• Style guides
  • Commit style guide
  • Code style guide
• Writing an Avocado plugin
  • Code example
  • Registering configuration options (settings)
  • Registering plugins
  • Namespace
  • Plugin config files
  • Plugins execution order
  • Cacheable plugins
  • New test type plugin example
• Implementing other result formats
• Request for Comments (RFCs)
  • What is a RFC?
  • Previous RFCs
• Releasing Avocado
  • Which repositories you should pay attention to
  • How to release?
  • How to refresh Fedora rawhide
• Avocado development tips
  • In tree utils
  • measure_duration
  • Line-profiler
  • Remote debug with Eclipse
• Contact information
• Policy for AI-Generated Code
  • Introduction and Purpose
  • What is AI-Generated Code
  • Transparency and Disclosure
  • Licensing and Copyright
  • Code Quality, Review, and Testing
  • AI contribution best practise
  • Enforcement and Dispute Resolution
  • Disclaimer