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authorMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2017-01-29 18:05:58 +0100
committerMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2017-01-29 18:05:58 +0100
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@chapter Contributing
Everyone is welcome to contribute to Cuirass. You can report bugs, send
-patches and share your ideas at @email{bug-cuirass@@framalistes.org}.
+patches and share your ideas with others by sending emails the
+@email{bug-cuirass@@framalistes.org, mailing list}.
+
+Development is done using the Git distributed version control system.
+Thus, access to the repository is not strictly necessary. We welcome
+contributions in the form of patches as produced by @code{git
+format-patch}. Please write commit logs in the ChangeLog format
+(@pxref{Change Logs,,, standards, GNU Coding Standards}); you can check
+the commit history for examples.
+
+When posting a patch to the mailing list, use @samp{[PATCH] @dots{}} as
+a subject. You may use your email client or the @command{git
+send-email} command. We prefer to get patches in plain text messages,
+either inline or as MIME attachments. You are advised to pay attention
+if your email client changes anything like line breaks or indentation
+which could potentially break the patches.
@c *********************************************************************
@node GNU Free Documentation License