Contribution guidelines for mrtg
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.
\s-1MRTG\s0 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-2.17.4/translate directory and follow the instructions given in the \s-1README\s0 file.
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 \s-1GNU\s0 diff (Many Unix systems will have this installed already. In the \s-1NT\s0 world you might want to get http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ to get all the nice \s-1GNU\s0 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
All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl \s-1POD\s0 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 \s-1POD\s0 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.
Send your patches, translations and contributions to Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>
Tobias Oetiker <[email protected]>