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MRTG-CONTRIB(1)			     mrtg		       MRTG-CONTRIB(1)

NAME
       mrtg-contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG

DESCRIPTION
       If you have written an extension	to mrtg	or created a bug fix, please
       consider	contributing it	to the project.	As I get quite a number	of
       contributions every week, here are a few	guidelines which explain how
       to contribute so	that I can use the contribution	without	too much
       additional work.

   Translations
       MRTG messages have been translated to a number of languages but there
       are still many which have not been covered yet. If you want to add
       yours, go into the mrtg-2.17.10/translate directory and follow the
       instructions given in the README	file.

   Patches
       When you	have created your modification or extension to mrtg and	want
       to submit it to me, please crate	a patch	for the	files which you	have
       modified.  Do not send entire files unless they are new.

       To create a patch, get hold of a	copy of	GNU diff (Many Unix systems
       will have this installed	already. In the	NT world you might want	to get
       http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ to get	all the	nice GNU tools
       available.)  and	type

	diff --unified --ignore-space-change old-file new-file > simple.patch

       or if you have modified several files do

	diff --recursive --unified --ignore-space-change old-dir/ new-dir/ >long.patch

   Documentation
       All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl POD system. If you want
       to learn	about it, type

	perldoc	perlpod

       and read	the instructions. If you have bugfixes or additions to the
       existing	documents, make	sure you modify	the POD	files and not the html
       or txt versions.

       I take documentation very seriously. Whenever you create	a new feature
       for mrtg	which you want to get included in the official release,	your
       patch must also contain modifications for the relevant pod file in the
       doc tree	or for the documentation sections of cfgmaker and indexmaker.

ADDRESS
       Send your patches, translations and contributions to Tobias Oetiker
       <tobi@oetiker.ch>

AUTHOR
       Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>

2.17.10				  2022-01-19		       MRTG-CONTRIB(1)

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