xgboost/doc/dev-guide/contribute.md

Developer Guide

This page contains guide for developers of xgboost. XGBoost has been developed and used by a group of active community. Everyone is more than welcomed to is a great way to make the project better. The project is maintained by a committee of committers who will review and merge pull requests from contributors.

Contributing Code

• The C++ code follows Google C++ style
• We follow numpy style to document our python module
• Tools to precheck codestyle
  • clone https://github.com/dmlc/dmlc-core into root directory
  • type make lint and fix possible errors.