1 GTK+ is part of the GNOME Subversion repository. At the current time, any
2 person with write access to the GNOME repository, can make changes to
3 GTK+. This is a good thing, in that it encourages many people to work
4 on GTK+, and progress can be made quickly. However, GTK+ is a fairly
5 large and complicated package that many other things depend on, so to
6 avoid unnecessary breakage, and to take advantage of the knowledge
7 about GTK+ that has been built up over the last 4 years, we'd like
8 to ask people commiting to GTK+ to follow a few rules:
10 0) Ask first. If your changes are major, or could possibly break existing
11 code, you should always ask. If your change is minor and you've
12 been working on GTK+ for a while it probably isn't necessary
13 to ask. But when in doubt, ask. Even if your change is correct,
14 somebody may know a better way to do things.
16 If you are making changes to GTK+, you should be subscribed
17 to gtk-devel-list@gnome.org. (Subscription address:
18 gtk-devel-list-request@gnome.org.) This is a good place to ask
19 about intended changes.
21 #gtk+ on GIMPNet (irc.gimp.org, irc.us.gimp.org, irc.eu.gimp.org, ...)
22 is also a good place to find GTK+ developers to discuss changes with,
23 however, email to gtk-devel-list is the most certain and preferred
28 2) There must be a ChangeLog for every commit. (If you discover that
29 you only committed half the files you meant to and need to fix that
30 up, or something, you don't need a new ChangeLog entry. But in general,
31 ChangeLog entries are mandatory.) Changes without ChangeLog entries
34 3) There _must_ be a ChangeLog for every commit.
38 * If you are going to be changing many files in an experimental fashion,
39 it probably is a good idea to create a separate branch for your changes.
41 * The ChangeLog entries should preferably match in date format
42 with the existing entries. You can set how emacs does this
43 by using customize mode:
46 - set Programming/Tools/ChangeLog/Add Log Time Format to
49 Or, set the add-log-time-format to 'current-time-string in