[DotGNU]Savannah group membership and patches

[Rhys Weatherley]

A number of people recently have sent in requests to be added as Savannah 
group members in the dotgnu-pnet and other projects.  Usually for the purpose 
of submitting patches.

It isn't necessary to be a group member to submit patches.  The Savannah patch 
system accepts patches from any user, even anonymous ones (although we prefer 
that you log in or otherwise indicate who wrote the patch so that we can 
properly credit you in the ChangeLog).

Patches are reviewed by developers with CVS write access, usually Gopal or 
myself, and then either committed or marked for further discussion.  (Logging 
in when you submit a patch ensures that you will be notified when further 
discussion is required).

Group membership is reserved for those with CVS write access.  This is 
conferred by Gopal and I on high-volume contributors who have a history of 
committing good patches and it has become burdensome for us to keep 
processing their patches manually.

We also suggest that all pnet developers subscribe to the 
"address@hidden" mailing list.  All bugs and patches are 
forwarded to that list, together with updates on their status.  If you see a 
bug fly by and you want to fix it, then great - test it out on your system 
and then submit a patch.  The easiest way to generate a patch is to use "cvs 
diff -u file" on your local repository.

One more note: if you have a patch for an unreported bug, then it isn't 
necessary to report a bug and then submit the patch.  Just submit the patch 
with a note on it describing the bug that has been fixed.  Otherwise someone 
else might jump in and try to fix the bug too, leading to confusion.

Cheers,

Rhys.