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6       mrtg-contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG
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DESCRIPTION

9       If you have written an extension to mrtg or created a bug fix, please
10       consider contributing it to the project. As I get quite a number of
11       contributions every week, here are a few guidelines which explain how
12       to contribute so that I can use the contribution without too much
13       additional work.
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15   Translations
16       MRTG messages have been translated to a number of languages but there
17       are still many which have not been covered yet. If you want to add
18       yours, go into the mrtg-2.17.10/translate directory and follow the
19       instructions given in the README file.
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21   Patches
22       When you have created your modification or extension to mrtg and want
23       to submit it to me, please crate a patch for the files which you have
24       modified.  Do not send entire files unless they are new.
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26       To create a patch, get hold of a copy of GNU diff (Many Unix systems
27       will have this installed already. In the NT world you might want to get
28       http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ to get all the nice GNU tools
29       available.)  and type
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31        diff --unified --ignore-space-change old-file new-file > simple.patch
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33       or if you have modified several files do
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35        diff --recursive --unified --ignore-space-change old-dir/ new-dir/ >long.patch
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37   Documentation
38       All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl POD system. If you want
39       to learn about it, type
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43       and read the instructions. If you have bugfixes or additions to the
44       existing documents, make sure you modify the POD files and not the html
45       or txt versions.
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47       I take documentation very seriously. Whenever you create a new feature
48       for mrtg which you want to get included in the official release, your
49       patch must also contain modifications for the relevant pod file in the
50       doc tree or for the documentation sections of cfgmaker and indexmaker.
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ADDRESS

53       Send your patches, translations and contributions to Tobias Oetiker
54       <tobi@oetiker.ch>
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AUTHOR

57       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
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