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CONTRIBUTE: Various minor updates and changes.

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Mostly related to the change from CVS to Bazaar.
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Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See end for license conditions.
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* Coding Standards
Contributed code should follow the GNU Coding Standard.
Contributed code should follow the GNU Coding Standards.
If it doesn't, we'll need to find someone to fix the code before we
can use it.
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* Copyright Assignment
We can accept small changes without legal papers, and for medium-size
changes a copyright disclaimer is ok too. To accept substantial
contributions from you, we need a copyright assignment form filled out
and filed with the FSF.
Contact us at emacs-devel@gnu.org to obtain the relevant forms.
We can accept small changes (roughly, fewer than 15 lines) without
legal papers. Anything more substantial requires a copyright
disclaimer or assignment (the latter is preferred, especially for
larger changes). Both of these involved filling out a short form and
filing it with the FSF. The process is straightforward -- contact us
at emacs-devel@gnu.org to obtain the relevant forms.
* Getting the Source Code
The latest version of Emacs can be downloaded using CVS (or other
version control systems) from the Savannah web site. It is important
to write your patch based on this version; if you start from an older
version, your patch may be outdated when you write it, and maintainers
will have a hard time applying it.
The latest version of Emacs can be downloaded using Bazaar from the
Savannah web site. It is important to write your patch based on the
latest version. If you start from an older version, your patch may be
outdated (so that maintainers will have a hard time applying it), or
changes in Emacs may have made your patch unnecessary.
After you have downloaded the CVS source, you should read the file
INSTALL.CVS for build instructions (they differ to some extent from a
After you have downloaded the Bazaar source, you should read the file
INSTALL.BZR for build instructions (they differ to some extent from a
normal build).
Ref: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
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When you have all these pieces, bundle them up in a mail message and
send it to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org or emacs-devel@gnu.org.
All subsequent discussion should also be sent to the mailing list.
All subsequent discussion should be sent to the same mailing list.
** Description
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A ChangeLog entry as plaintext (separate from the patch).
See the various ChangeLog files for format and content. Note that,
See the various ChangeLog files for format and content. Note that,
unlike some other projects, we do require ChangeLogs also for
documentation, i.e. Texinfo files.
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Please use "Context Diff" format.
If you are accessing the CVS repository use
cvs update; cvs diff -cp
else, use
If you are accessing the Bazaar repository, make sure your copy is
up-to-date (e.g. with `bzr pull'), then use
bzr diff --no-aliases --diff-options=-cp
Else, use
diff -cp OLD NEW
If your version of diff does not support these options, then get the
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If you send several unrelated changes together, we will ask you to
separate them so we can consider each of the changes by itself.
** Do not make formatting changes.
Making cosmetic formatting changes (indentation, etc) makes it harder
to see what you have really changed.
* Coding style and conventions.
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* Supplemental information for Emacs Developers.
** Write access to Emacs' CVS repository.
** Write access to the Emacs repository.
Once you become a frequent contributor to Emacs, we can consider
giving you write access to the CVS repository.
giving you write access to the Bazaar repository.
** Emacs Mailing lists.
Discussion about Emacs development takes place on emacs-devel@gnu.org.
Bug reports are sent to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
Bug reports and feature requests are sent to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org.
You can subscribe to the mailing lists at savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs.