comparison DOCS/tech/patches.txt @ 14898:57d00d7a9182

Patches should not be sent as replies to unrelated threads.

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    '[PATCH] very short description of the patch'.
    In the mail, describe in a few sentences what you change and why.
    The subject line is very important if you do not want your patch to get
    lost in the noise. We need the uppercase [PATCH] to be able to search
    for unapplied patches, so please use it.
    Do not compress your patch unless it is larger than 80k or if you know
    that your mailer messes up (reformats) text attachments. It only makes
    handling the patch more difficult. If you have to compress your patch,
    use either bzip2, gzip or zip to compress it, not a different format.
    You have to subscribe to mplayer-dev-eng since we blocked postings from

14898:57d00d7a9182

    '[PATCH] very short description of the patch'.
    In the mail, describe in a few sentences what you change and why.
    The subject line is very important if you do not want your patch to get
    lost in the noise. We need the uppercase [PATCH] to be able to search
    for unapplied patches, so please use it.
    Do not send your patch as a reply to some other unrelated mail, compose
    a new message, otherwise it will probably get overlooked.
    Do not compress your patch unless it is larger than 80k or if you know
    that your mailer messes up (reformats) text attachments. It only makes
    handling the patch more difficult. If you have to compress your patch,
    use either bzip2, gzip or zip to compress it, not a different format.
    You have to subscribe to mplayer-dev-eng since we blocked postings from