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1 Sending patches:
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2 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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3 Note: We know these rules are hard, but it's hard to maintain such
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4 big and complex project, so you should accept our rules. We have no
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5 time for fixing buggy, broken or old patches!
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7 1. Always make patch for the CVS version.
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8 We do not accept patches for old versions or releases.
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10 2. Make unified diffs ('diff -Naur' or 'cvs diff -u')
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12 3. Test functionality of your patch. We'll *refuse* it if it breaks
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13 something, even if it extends other features!
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15 4. Read your patch. We'll *refuse* it if it changes indent of the
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16 code or it does tab/space or other cosmetical changes!
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18 5. Comment parts what really needs it (has tricky side-effects etc).
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19 Commenting trivial code not requires. Comments must be english!
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21 6. Do not ask for CVS write access at first time. If you contributed
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22 1 or more nice, acceptable patches and they need maintaining or
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23 you want to be mplayer developer, you'll get CVS write access.
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25 7. Subscribe to the mplayer-dev-eng list (don't worry, it's low traffic)
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26 and send your patch there as base64-encoded attachment (use gzip or
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27 bzip2 *only* if it's really big). Also describe in a few sentences
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28 what (and why) are the changes.
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30 Thank you!
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32 A'rpi