1 -*- mode: org; fill-column:65 -*-
3 This is the GIT repository for the development of Org-mode, an
4 Emacs mode for organizing your life.
6 The text below explains the rules for participating in Org-mode
12 1. The master git repository is hosted publicly at orgmode.org.
13 Anyone can get a clone of the current repository state using
16 git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
18 Having a clone is sufficient to start hacking and to produce
19 patches that can easily and consistently be applied to the
22 2. There is a mirror hosted publicly at repo.or.cz. Anyone can
23 get a clone of the current repository state using the command
25 git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
27 3. People who are interested to participate in the Org-mode
28 development can to so by sending patches to this address:
32 4. An interested developer can also request push access to the
33 central repository by sending her/his user-info to the
34 maintainer of Org-mode or the webmaster of orgmode.org.
36 After you have been added as a user with push privileges,
37 clone the repository through ssh using
39 git clone orgmode@orgmode.org:org-mode.git
41 By requesting push access, you acknowledge that you have read
42 and agreed with the following rules:
44 - Org-mode is part of Emacs. Therefore, we need to be very
45 conscious about changes moving into the Org-mode core.
46 These can originate only from people who have signed the
47 appropriate papers with the Free Software Foundation. The
48 files to which this applies are:
50 - all *.el files in the lisp directory of the repository
51 - org.texi, orgcard.tex in the doc directory
52 - the corresponding ChangeLog files
54 - Before making any significant changes, please explain and
55 discuss them on the mailing list emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
57 This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining
58 their own contributions to Org-mode. Please, just use the
59 new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right
62 - Creating and pushing a change to the Org-mode core requires
63 you also to provide ChangeLog entries. Just press `C-x 4 a'
64 in each function or variable you have modified and describe
65 the change you made in the ChangeLog buffer/file.
67 - Among other things, Org-mode is widely appreciated because
68 of its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try
69 hard to preserve this and I would like to ask everyone to
70 keep this in mind when developing changes.
73 * The contrib directory
75 The git repository contains a contrib directory. This directory
76 is the playing field for any developer, also people who have not
77 (yet) signed the papers with the FSF. You are free to add files
78 to this directory, implementing extensions, new link types etc.
79 Also non-Lisp extensions like scripts to process Org-mode files
80 in different ways are welcome in this directory. You should
81 provide documentation with your extensions, at least in the form
82 of commentary in the file, better on worg. Please discuss your
83 extensions on emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
85 After files have been tested in contrib and found to be generally
86 useful, we may decide to clarify copyright questions and then
87 move the file into the Org-mode core. This means they will be
88 moved up to the root directory and will also eventually be added
89 to Emacs bzr repository. The final decision about this rests