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contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Send your patches, translations and contributions to

Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>

Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>