Re: [gnome-love] submitting patches to maintainers

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 19:56, Ricardo Amadeo Contreras wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-10-30 at 11:08, asan euskalnet net wrote:
> > I've solved a little bug of gedit. Now I want to generate a patch and 
> > send it to the maintainer. I have the gedit sources from the gnome cvs 
> > server. There is a procedure for generating diffs?
>
> This is something that I am very interested in as well!
>
> I've been testing out the Ximian Setup Tools cvs code recently, trying
> to get them to support Mandrake 8.0... and I'd like to be able to
> generate such a diff and send it to the maintaner (whoever that may be?)
> in the hopes that mdk8.0 can become an officially supported platform.  

We would **LOVE** to have MDK 8.0 supported.

For XST please send i to the mailing list :
setup-tool-hackers ximian com
you can subscribe in :
http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/setup-tool-hackers

> Is there a recommended procedure?  ... preferred procedure?  ... is
> there a documented process?

generate a diff with : cvs -z3 diff -RN -u5 > ../file.patch and send it
to the list.

love,
Chema