From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 22 23:52:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA03217 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:52:15 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA03210 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:51:59 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12733; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 08:51:36 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id IAA20948; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 08:51:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA17128; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 08:15:49 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503230715.IAA17128@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [Q] best way to submit patches/changes? To: PVinci@ix.netcom.com Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 08:15:48 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199503230617.WAA00201@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 22, 95 10:17:47 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1025 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As David Greenman wrote: > > >Subject line says it all. What is the preferred method for making > >contributions? And to whom are they made?? to Incoming? > > If it's a complete work, then 'incoming' is the best place. If it's just a > patch and is of general interest, then post it here or to -current. If it is a > patch that is not of general interest, send it to a core member such as myself > or Jordan. Better yet, unless it's really large, use send-pr for it (at least for bug fixes or small contributions). This makes the live of the core team easier. If you're going to port foreign software, watch out for the GUIDELINES file in /usr/ports. Essentially, don't send us a patched version of all the source, instead the patches along with the location of where the original source is living. (If all else fails, this can also be hosted somewhere at cdrom.com.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)