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37 lines
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Hello Hacker,
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I really appreciate your interest in hacking this software, but
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I am kind of critical when seeing patches. Thus I created this
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file to give you some hints of my thinking quirks.
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Submitting patches
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Make my life easier, make your life easier, use a version control system (vcs).
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For this software the preferred vcs is git. Clone the latest repo, create
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a new local branch (git checkout -b <branchname>) write down your ideas.
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When you're done, push all your stuff out to some public repo and drop a
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mail to the mailinglist, what you did and where to get it.
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Introduce a feature or change behaviour
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Uhh, fancy! You have had a great idea, then it's time to change
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the major version, so others know that something changed.
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If the configuration format is changed, add a script to tools/
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to allow users upgrade their configuration to this major version.
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And now comes the most difficult part: Add documentation. Nobody
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benefits from your cool feature, if it is not known. I know, writing
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documentation is not so much fun, but you also expect good documentation
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for this software, don't you?
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If you think my thinking quirks must be corrected
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See above ("Submitting patches") and submit a patch to this file.
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Thanks for reading.
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