Mercurial > mplayer.hg
changeset 20783:dc1a1ff6c7d9
Updated for controversial changes and irc-only decisions
| author | rtogni |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:21:50 +0000 |
| parents | aa9594d726ce |
| children | 720206eef78b |
| files | DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt Wed Nov 08 20:34:32 2006 +0000 +++ b/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt Wed Nov 08 22:21:50 2006 +0000 @@ -294,6 +294,21 @@ maintainers will review and commit your stuff. +12. Always send a patch to the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list before committing + if you suspect that the change is going to be controversial. Based on past + experience, these changes are likely to be controversial: + - feature removal, even if obsolete + - changes to "special" output messages (like the "Core dumped ;)" message) + - verbosity changes from default (info) level + - changes to "historical" parts of docs and webpages + - use of internal or external libraries + + +13. Try to keep important discussions and requests (also) on the + mplayer-dev-eng mailing list, so that all developers can benefit from them. + IRC is good for quick discussions, but nobody is there 24/7. + + Also read DOCS/tech/patches.txt !!!! We think our rules are not too hard. If you have comments, contact us.