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Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -*- mode: text; -*- -$Id: HACKING,v 1.9 2004/11/05 13:17:20 gdt Exp $ +$Id: HACKING,v 1.10 2004/11/05 23:38:20 paul Exp $ GUIDELINES FOR HACKING ON QUAGGA @@ -42,6 +42,13 @@ directory should go in the per-directory ChangeLog. Global or structural changes should also be mentioned in the top-level ChangeLog. +Certain directories do not contain project code, but contain project +meta-data, eg packaging information, changes to files in these directory may +not require the global ChangeLog to be updated (at the discretion of the +maintainer who usually maintains that meta-data). Also, CVS meta-data such +as cvsignore files do not require ChangeLog updates, just a sane commit +message. + SHARED LIBRARY VERSIONING [this section is at the moment just gdt's opinion] @@ -99,7 +106,10 @@ PATCH APPLICATION TO CVS mailinglist. * Give an appropriate commit message, eg the ChangeLog entry should suffice, - if it does not, then the ChangeLog entry itself needs to be corrected. + if it does not, then the ChangeLog entry itself needs to be corrected. The + commit message text should be identical to that added to the ChangeLog + message. (One suggestion: when commiting, use your editor to read in the + ChangeLog and delete all previous ChangeLogs.) * By committing a patch, you are responsible for fixing problems resulting from it (or backing it out). @@ -113,7 +123,7 @@ and willing to verify that -current does or does not work correctly. BSD (Free, Net or Open, any platform) # without capabilities GNU/Linux (any distribution, i386) - Solaris with 64-bit processor (strict alignment, not ILP32) + Solaris (strict alignment, any platform) [future: NetBSD/sparc64] The list of daemons that are thought to be stable and that should be |