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
11 1. The master git repository is hosted publicly at orgmode.org.
12 Anyone can get a clone of the current repository state using
15 git clone git://orgmode.org/org-mode.git
17 Having a clone is sufficient to start hacking and to produce
18 patches that can easily and consistently be applied to the
21 2. There is a mirror hosted publicly at repo.or.cz. Anyone can
22 get a clone of the current repository state using the command
24 git clone git://repo.or.cz/org-mode.git
26 3. People who are interested to participate in the Org-mode
27 development can to so by sending patches to this address:
29 [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]]
31 4. An interested developer can also request push access to the
32 central repository by sending her/his user-info to the
33 maintainer of Org-mode or the webmaster of orgmode.org.
35 After you have been added as a user with push privileges,
36 clone the repository through ssh using
38 git clone orgmode@orgmode.org:org-mode.git
40 By requesting push access, you acknowledge that you have read
41 and agreed with the following rules:
43 - Org-mode is part of GNU Emacs. Therefore, we need to be
44 very conscious about changes moving into the Org-mode core.
45 These can originate only from people who have signed the
46 appropriate papers with the Free Software Foundation. The
47 files to which this applies are:
49 - all *.el files in the lisp directory of the repository
50 - org.texi, orgcard.tex in the doc directory
51 - the corresponding ChangeLog files
53 - Before making any significant changes, please explain and
54 discuss them on the mailing list emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
56 This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining
57 their own contributions to Org-mode. Please, just use the
58 new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right
61 - Creating and pushing a change to the Org-mode core requires
62 you also to provide ChangeLog entries. Just press `C-x 4 a'
63 in each function or variable you have modified and describe
64 the change you made in the ChangeLog buffer/file.
66 - Among other things, Org-mode is widely appreciated because
67 of its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try
68 hard to preserve this and I would like to ask everyone to
69 keep this in mind when developing changes.
71 * The contrib directory
73 The git repository contains a contrib directory. This directory
74 is the playing field for any developer, also people who have not
75 (yet) signed the papers with the FSF. You are free to add files
76 to this directory, implementing extensions, new link types etc.
77 Also non-Lisp extensions like scripts to process Org-mode files
78 in different ways are welcome in this directory. You should
79 provide documentation with your extensions, at least in the form
80 of commentary in the file, better on worg. Please discuss your
81 extensions on [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]].
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 GNU Emacs bzr repository. The final decision about this rests