contrib(1)
NAME
contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG
DESCRIPTION
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 guidelines which explain how to contribute so that I
can use the contribution without too much additional work.
TRANSLATIONS
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
mrtg-2.9.29/translate directory and follow the instruc
tions given in the README file.
DOCUMENTATION
- All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl POD sys
tem. If you want to learn about it, type - perldoc perlpod
- and read the instructions. If you have bugfixes or addi
tions to the existing documents, make sure you modify the
POD files and not the html or txt versions.
PATCHES
When you have created your modification or extension to
mrtg and want to submit it to me, please crate a patch for
the files which you have modified. Do not send entire
files unless they are new.
- Arrayor if you have modified several files do
- diff --recursive --unified --ignore-space-change old-dir/
- new-dir/ >long.patch
DOCUMENTATION
I take documentation very seriously. Whenever you create a
new feature for mrtg which you want to get included in the
official release, your patch must also contain modifica
tions for the relevant pod file in the doc tree or for the
documentation sections of cfgmaker and indexmaker.
ADDRESS
Send your patches, translations and contributions to
Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>
AUTHOR
- Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>