If you are interested in contributing to cudnn-frontend, your contributions will fall into three categories:
- You want to report a bug, feature request, or documentation issue
- File an issue describing what you encountered or what you want to see changed.
- The cudnn team will evaluate the issues and triage them, scheduling them for a release. If you believe the issue needs priority attention comment on the issue to notify the team.
- You want to propose a new Feature and implement it
- Post about your intended feature, and we shall discuss the design and implementation.
- Once we agree that the plan looks good, go ahead and implement it, using the code contributions guide below.
- You want to implement a feature or bug-fix for an outstanding issue
- Follow the code contributions guide below.
- If you need more context on a particular issue, please ask and we shall provide.
- Read the project's README.md to learn how to setup the development environment.
- Comment on the issue saying you are going to work on it and what changes you are going to make.
- Code! Make sure to update unit tests!
- When done, create your pull request.
- Wait for other developers to review your code and update code as needed.
- Once reviewed and approved, a cudnn-frontend developer will merge your pull request.
- At this time, we are accepting only small fixes, changes. Once merged to main this will be an untagged version. A release tag will be assigned along with future frontend release by cudnn team.
Remember, if you are unsure about anything, don't hesitate to comment on issues and ask for clarifications!
Consistent code formatting is important in the cudnn-frontend project to ensure readability, maintainability, and thus simplifies collaboration.
The cudnn-frontend repository has one main branch. Please submit a PR to this branch. We will update the doc as the policy changes.
Branches used to create PRs should have a name of the form <name>-issue-<issue_number>
which conforms to the following conventions:
- Name:
- A name to convey what is being worked on
- Please use dashes or underscores between words as opposed to spaces.
Portions of contribution guide adopted from https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/blob/branch-24.04/CONTRIBUTING.md