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 https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/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. People who are interested in participating to the Org mode
22 development can do so by sending patches to this address:
24 [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]]
26 3. An interested developer can also request push access to the
27 central repository by creating an account on code.orgmode.org
28 and by sending her/his user info to the maintainer.
30 After you have been added as a user with push privileges,
31 clone the repository through ssh using
33 git clone git@code.orgmode.org:bzg/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 GNU Emacs. Therefore, we need to be
39 very 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 lisp directory of the repository
45 - org.texi, orgcard.tex in the doc directory
46 - the corresponding ChangeLog files
48 - Before making any significant changes, please explain and
49 discuss them on the mailing list emacs-orgmode@gnu.org.
51 This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining
52 their own contributions to Org mode. Please, just use the
53 new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right
56 - Org mode no longer uses ChangeLog entries to document
57 changes. Instead, special commit messages are used, as
58 described in the `CONTRIBUTE' file in the main Emacs
61 - Among other things, Org mode is widely appreciated because
62 of its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try
63 hard to preserve this and ask everyone to keep this in mind
64 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.
73 Also non-Lisp extensions like scripts to process Org files in
74 different ways are welcome in this directory. You should provide
75 documentation with your extensions, at least in the form of
76 commentary in the file, better on worg. Please discuss your
77 extensions on [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]].
79 After files have been tested in =contrib/= and found to be
80 generally useful, we may decide to clarify copyright questions
81 and then move the file into the Org mode core. This means they
82 will be moved up to the root directory and will also eventually
83 be added to GNU Emacs git repository. The final decision about
84 this rests with the maintainer.