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48c7888 by Aleksey Lim at 2010-12-22 1
How to contribute
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Useful notes how to contribute to the project.
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Before committing
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All source files need to be passed through `sugar-lint`_ command.
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Follow sugar-lint home page instructions and especially
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`"Lint files before committing"` section.
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Send patches
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Create your patches using ``git format`` command and send them to all
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maintainers from the :ref:`AUTHORS <AUTHORS>` file. The easiest way it just
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using ``git send-email`` command. Patches might be CCed to
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sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org to attract more people to review.
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Gitorious forks
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Another useful way to contribute, especially for big improvements, is creating
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Gitorious forks and request them for merge to the trunk.
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* http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/05/09/weve-made-a-few-changes/
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  (see `"Merge requests"` topic)
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* http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/07/15/new-merge-request-functionality/
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* http://blog.gitorious.org/2009/11/06/awesome-code-review/
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.. _sugar-lint: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Platform_Team/Sugar_Lint