Submitting Patches

Read the Webware Style Guidelines, and try to follow them when making your changes.

Create a patch against the latest SVN (using svn diff) and submit it on Webware's SourceForge page. Then send email to the webware-devel list.

It would be highly appreciated also if you could modify the WebKit documentation in the appropriate places to describe the new patch. The thing you're patching may be currently undocumented, in which case you're not expected to write full documentation unless you feel like it :-)

At the very least, please include in the patch submission a sentence or two describing the patch that could be pasted into the release notes.

And if you've added new settings to Application.config or AppServer.config, please edit the Configuration Guide to describe the new settings, and include the diff in your patch.

-- GeoffTalvola - 20 Mar 2002

And remember to test your patch right before you sumbit it so you don't accidentally submit syntax errors and the like along with your patch (not that I've ever done something so silly ;).

-- TavisRudd - 20 Mar 2002

And if you have more than one distinct enhancement and/or fix, try to make individual patches rather than one monolithic patch. That makes it easier for us to absorb the contributions.

-- ChuckEsterbrook - 29 Mar 2002