4 The Nautilus source tree is available from GNOME svn (svn.gnome.org) and
5 in releases on the GNOME FTP site
6 (http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/nautilus/).
8 If you plan to hack on Nautilus, please make sure you work from the
9 SVN version. The SVN version can be checked from the GNOME svn server.
10 See http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html for details on how to get
11 started with GNOME SVN.
13 If you want to contribute in development discussions, please send mail
14 to the nautilus mailing list: <nautilus-list@gnome.org>. Archives and
15 subscription information are available at
16 http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
22 If you've been working on a change to Nautilus and want to propose it
23 for inclusion, you have to generate a patch and submit it for review
26 Patches should be made with 'svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -up >patch'
27 and should conform to Nautilus coding style as described in
28 docs/style-guide.html. We are pretty strict about coding style, so
29 please make sure you follow the style guide to avoid unnecessary
30 work on both sides when reviewing the patch.
32 The best way to submit a patch for review is to post it on the mailing
33 list. That way everyone sees it and can take part in the following
34 discussion about it. Sometimes people also attach patches to bugs in
35 bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org, product 'nautilus'). If you do
36 this, please send a mail to the list saying you did so, because it is
37 very easy for the bugzilla email to get lost in all the bugzilla
38 reports, and only the people CCd on the bug can partake in the
41 The Nautilus maintainers do their best to review patches and help
42 developers that want to work on something, however we are often
43 swamped in work and can miss an email or just forget to answer
44 it. Don't be afraid of reposting your patches after a while, or poking
45 us about the status of them.
47 Also, if you're planning to do large changes, please take them up for
48 discussion on the list first. If you get feedback early it is much
49 easier to integrate it into your work.
51 If your patch adds non-trivial strings, please ask for a string review
52 from the i18n team before committing the changes. Strings should avoid
53 contractions, and stay consistent with other strings already in Nautilus.
54 Please reuse strings within Nautilus where it makes sense to do so.