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Permissively licensed components of the midipix project currently
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accept contributions in the form of gpg-signed patches. The requirement
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that all contributions be gpg-signed helps to ensure a repository's
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reliability and license integrity, and is thus considered worth of
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the (small) trouble that it might entail.
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Please note that patch submission is only one of the many ways to
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advance the development of a software component, and that assistance
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in the following areas is always needed, and greatly appreciated:
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* brainstorming.
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* expressing needs, requesting features.
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* sharing knowledge about your favorite system.
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* lurking on irc, reviewing commits and patches.
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* testing release candidates on different system.
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* building from source, testing bleeding-edge versions.
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If you would like to submit code, then the following how-to is for you.
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1. discuss your proposed changes on the project's freenode irc channel.
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2. if the changes you propose are not trivial to accept, start a discussion
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on the project's mailing list.
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3. obtain as much help as needed on irc; post early versions of your work.
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4. finalize your patch together with the project maintainer.
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5. commit the patch to your local repository.
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6. verify that everything builds, and that nothing breaks.
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7 run contrib.sh, then sign and submit your patch.
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