Re: [CEDET-devel] contributing process?

[David E. <de...@ra...>]

Brendan Miller writes:
> I know that cedet merges with emacs periodically.

Well, that's the plan. ;-)

> If I have a patch to submit to cedet, do I need to provide copyright
> assignment to the GNU project first?

Yes, if it is longer than ~15 lines of code or text.

> I'm not very familiar with bzr. Is there best way to contribute
> changes to email this list with a patch, or is there some software to
> send a pull request similar to how things are done on github?

For smaller changes, it is probably easiest to simply send a patch to
the list. Please provide a proper ChangeLog entry, and please do not
just copy&paste the patch, since this will usually get garbled by the
involved MUAs; just attach the patch separately to your mail instead.

For larger changes, it makes sense to work on a separate "task branch"
where you can commit frequently (please use proper log entries), which
will also make it easier for us to understand your changes. See the file
USING_CEDET_FROM_BZR for an introduction to those task branches. You can
then either publish that branch, or generate a 'bundle' and send it to
the list.

There's also the command 'bzr send', but I've never used it and don't
know how well it works.

Cheers,
David