Add a "Contributing" section to README with patch submission guidelines
For the CubicWeb project and its dependencies, we now prefer patches
submission and review by email on a public mailing list. We are thus moving
away from the previous vcreview-based workflow taking place on the forge.
This change is motivated by the following points:
- the current reviewer assignment mechanism (pick a random reviewer, rely on
reviewer availability rather than on willingness to review, send related
patches to distinct people, etc.) is inefficient if not counter-productive;
- most of the times, discussion only happens between the patch submitter and a
reviewer with no easy way to increase the audience;
- cubicweb-vcreview has no concept of patch series;
- cubicweb-vcreview is not actively maintained anymore and its usability keeps
deteriorating.
We expect that email-based submission and review of patches will circumvent
these limitations. Anybody interested in the project is welcome to subscribed
to the mailing list and participate to the review process.
This patch documents the basic workflow of patches submissions by email.
# copyright 2003-2011 LOGILAB S.A. (Paris, FRANCE), all rights reserved.
# contact http://www.logilab.fr/ -- mailto:contact@logilab.fr
#
# This file is part of CubicWeb.
#
# CubicWeb is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
# terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
# Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# CubicWeb is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
# details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
# with CubicWeb. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
"""Simple cryptographic routines, based on python-crypto."""
from base64 import b64encode, b64decode
from six.moves import cPickle as pickle
from Crypto.Cipher import Blowfish
_CYPHERERS = {}
def _cypherer(seed):
try:
return _CYPHERERS[seed]
except KeyError:
_CYPHERERS[seed] = Blowfish.new(seed, Blowfish.MODE_ECB)
return _CYPHERERS[seed]
def encrypt(data, seed):
string = pickle.dumps(data)
string = string + '*' * (8 - len(string) % 8)
string = b64encode(_cypherer(seed).encrypt(string))
return unicode(string)
def decrypt(string, seed):
# pickle ignores trailing characters so we do not need to strip them off
string = _cypherer(seed).decrypt(b64decode(string))
return pickle.loads(string)