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 git repository is hosted publicly at repo.or.cz. Anyone
13 can get a clone of the current repository state using the
16 git clone git://repo.or.cz/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. People who are interested to participate in the Org-mode
23 development can do so by sending patches to
24 emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
26 3. An interested developer can also request push access to the
27 central repository by sending his/her user-info at repo.or.cz
28 the maintainer of Org-mode.
30 After you have been added as a user with push privileges,
31 clone the repository through ssh using
33 git+ssh://repo.or.cz/srv/git/org-mode.git
35 By requesting push access, you acknowledge that you have read
36 and agreed with the following rules:
38 - Org-mode is part of Emacs. Therefore we need to be very
39 conscious about changes moving into the Org-mode core.
40 These can originate only from people who have signed the
41 appropriate papers with the Free Software Foundation. The
42 files to which this applies are:
44 - all *.el files in the root directory of the repository
45 - org.texi, orgcard.tex, and ChangeLog.
47 - Before making any significant changes, please explain and
48 discuss them on the mailing list emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
50 This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining
51 their own contributions to Org-mode. Please, just use the
52 new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right
55 - Creating and pushing a change to the Org-mode core requires
56 you also to provide ChangeLog entries. Just press `C-x 4 a'
57 in each function or variable you have modified and describe
58 the change you made in the ChangeLog buffer/file.
60 - Among other things, Org-mode is widely appreciated because
61 if its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try
62 hard to preserve this and I would like to ask everyone to
63 keep this in mind when developing changes.
66 * The CONTRIB directory
68 The git repository contains a CONTRIB directory. This directory
69 is the playing field for any developer, also people who have not
70 (yet) signed the papers with the FSF. You are free to add files
71 to this directory, implementing extensions, new link types etc.
72 Also non-Lisp extensions like scripts to process Org-mode files
73 in different ways are welcome in this directory. You should
74 provide documentation with your extensions, at least in the form
75 of commentary in the file. Please discuss your extensions on
76 emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
78 The CONTRIB directory will be part of the Org-mode distribution
79 starting with version 5.21. When that happens, people who want
80 to use extensions will have to make sure their search path
81 (executable or Lisp) includes the relevant directories.
83 After files have been tested in CONTRIB and found to be generally
84 useful, we may decide to clarify copyright questions and then
85 move the file into the Org-mode core. This means they will be
86 moved up to the root directory and will also eventually be added
87 to Emacs CVS tree. The final decision about this rests with the