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       contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG

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       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 guide lines which explain how to contribute so that I
       can use the contribution without too much additional work.

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       MRTG messages have been translated to a number of lan-
       guages. But there are still many which have not been cov-
       ered yet. If you want to add yours, go into the
       _m_r_t_g_-_2_._9_._1_7_/_t_r_a_n_s_l_a_t_e directory, and follow the instruc-
       tions given in the _R_E_A_D_M_E file.

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       All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl PPPPOOOODDDD sys-
       tem. If you want to learn about it, type

        perldoc perlpod

       and read the instructions. If you have bug fixes of addi-
       tions to the existing documents, make sure you modify the
       PPPPOOOODDDD files and not the HTML or txt versions.

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       When you have created your modification or extension to
       mrtg and want to submit it to me, please create 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/cyg-
       win/ to get all the nice GNU tools available.)  and type

        diff --unified --ignore-space-change file.orig file > simple.patch

       or if you have modified several files do

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


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       I take documentation very seriously. When ever you create
       a new feature for mrtg which you want to get included in
       the official release your patch must also contain modifi-
       cations for the relevant pod 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.

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       Send your patches, translations and contributions to
       Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>

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       Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>



2001-06-05                    2.9.17                   CONTRIB(1)