[as-devel] Re: AS documentation maintenance

Sasha Vasko/OSCA/Courts/Judicial(sashav@sprintmail.com)
Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:36:13 -0600 



> > If you decide that you like what you see and produce any usefull 
results -
> > send them to me as a patch for review and if it looks good we'll add 
commit
> > access to CVS server for you.
> 
> I'll do that. Do you prefer one single patch or individual ones per
> file changed? Should I send them to you directly or to the devel list 
(I've
> just subscribed to the latter now)?

One large patch is good enough.

> 
> Which brings up another question: is there a document somewhere that
> details the AS contribution process and if not, would you like there to
> be?

Yes I would. Basically there are two ways - patches and CVS (obviously:).
Patches has to be in unified format, nd there is a script that creates 
clean
patch exectly the way we need it - tools/makeaspatch. It requires 2 things 
:
old tree has to be located(or symlinked) in /usr/src/AfterStep-current, and
your modifyed tree has to be in /usr/src/AfterStep-devel. When you run the 
script 
it diffs those two as well as does cleaning up and checks several important 

things. It creates temporary directory /usr/src/AfterStep-current2 which 
can be 
deleted later on. Patch will be placed into /tmp/patch file.

Rename it meaningfully, zip it up and send to me.

> > > I am to understand, then, that you need a new webmaster and webspace? 
If
> > > you don't have someone in mind, I might be able to help out there 
too. I
> > > don't want to come in with guns blazing or anything, but I do have a
> > > good deal of html experience and I am a sysadmin. Anyway, one thing 
at a
> > > time, eh?
> >
> > Well, we are still in the state of uncertainity as to what will Dave 
Mihm,
> > do so it is a bit early to talk about new maintainers for fao and wao.
> 
> Certainly. I don't want to step on anyone's feet here, I just don't know
> (and it may be none of my business) what's going on with regards to
> Dave; I didn't know /anything/ was going on when I volunteered.
> 
> Two sidenotes: First off, I need to finish painting my apartment so I
> probably won't start in for a few days. Also, in case you're wondering,
> my name is Ian Bennett. Hi.
> 

Nice to meet you Ian.

Sasha Vasko