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       mrtg-contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG

D?DE?ES?SC?CR?RI?IP?PT?TI?IO?ON?N

       If you have written an extension to mrtg or created a bug fix, please

       consider contributing it to the project. As I get quite a number of

       contributions every week, here are a few guidelines which explain how

       to contribute so that I can use the contribution without too much

       additional work.

   T?Tr?ra?an?ns?sl?la?at?ti?io?on?ns?s

       MRTG messages have been translated to a number of languages but there

       are still many which have not been covered yet. If you want to add

       yours, go into the _?m_?r_?t_?g_?-_?2_?._?1_?7_?._?7_?/_?t_?r_?a_?n_?s_?l_?a_?t_?e directory and follow the

       instructions given in the _?R_?E_?A_?D_?M_?E file.

   P?Pa?at?tc?ch?he?es?s

       When you have created your modification or extension to mrtg and want

       to submit it to me, please crate a patch for the files which you have

       modified.  Do not send entire files unless they are new.

       To create a patch, get hold of a copy of GNU diff (Many Unix systems

       will have this installed already. In the NT world you might want to get

       http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ to get all the nice GNU tools

       available.)  and type

        diff --unified --ignore-space-change old-file new-file > simple.patch

       or if you have modified several files do

        diff --recursive --unified --ignore-space-change old-dir/ new-dir/ >long.patch

   D?Do?oc?cu?um?me?en?nt?ta?at?ti?io?on?n

       All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl P?PO?OD?D system. If you want

       to learn about it, type

        perldoc perlpod

       and read the instructions. If you have bugfixes or additions to the

       existing documents, make sure you modify the P?PO?OD?D files and not the html

       or txt versions.

       I take documentation very seriously. Whenever you create a new feature

       for mrtg which you want to get included in the official release, your

       patch must also contain modifications for the relevant p?po?od?d file in the

       _?d_?o_?c tree or for the documentation sections of _?c_?f_?g_?m_?a_?k_?e_?r and _?i_?n_?d_?e_?x_?m_?a_?k_?e_?r.

A?AD?DD?DR?RE?ES?SS?S

       Send your patches, translations and contributions to Tobias Oetiker

       <tobi@oetiker.ch>

A?AU?UT?TH?HO?OR?R

       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>

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