Author: rtogni Date: Wed Nov 8 23:21:50 2006 New Revision: 20799 Modified: trunk/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt Log: Updated for controversial changes and irc-only decisions Modified: trunk/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt ============================================================================== --- trunk/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt (original) +++ trunk/DOCS/tech/svn-howto.txt Wed Nov 8 23:21:50 2006 @@ -294,6 +294,21 @@ maintainers will review and commit your stuff. +12. Always send a patch to the mplayer-dev-eng mailing list before committing + if you suspect that the change is going to be controversial. Based on past + experience, these changes are likely to be controversial: + - feature removal, even if obsolete + - changes to "special" output messages (like the "Core dumped ;)" message) + - verbosity changes from default (info) level + - changes to "historical" parts of docs and webpages + - use of internal or external libraries + + +13. Try to keep important discussions and requests (also) on the + mplayer-dev-eng mailing list, so that all developers can benefit from them. + IRC is good for quick discussions, but nobody is there 24/7. + + Also read DOCS/tech/patches.txt !!!! We think our rules are not too hard. If you have comments, contact us.