Thanks for the instructions on how to play nice in the sandbox. We noobs are always afraid we are going to cause more work than we fix.
:-) On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Thomas S. Dye <t...@tsdye.com> wrote: > Aloha Greg, > Gregory Benjamin <gr...@laserlab.com> writes: > >> I'd like to take a stab at making some corrections and would like to >> have access to the source for this document. With some guidance, I >> should be able to produce a patch that can be incorporated into the >> next realease. > > The source is /path/to/org-mode/doc/orgguide.texi > > There is a file in that directory called Documentation_Standards.org, > which contains what the file name advertises. > >> >> Please provide me with instructions on downloading the source, and >> after I finish editing, uploading the diffs or updated version. > > Assuming you are using the git version of Org mode, you should create a > new branch, check it out, and edit orgguide.texi there. > > When you are happy with your edits, stage and commit them in the git > repository. Once the edits have been committed, you can make a patch like > this: > > git format-patch -o ~/temp/ HEAD~1 > > where ~/temp/ is what I use and might not be appropriate for your setup, > so should be changed accordingly. > > You should read the instructions on formatting patches here: > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#sec-4 > > It saves the developers a lot of time if you follow these instructions. > > Finally, if you're likely to go over the limits of a TINY CHANGE, then > you will want to assign your work to FSF so that it can be included in > Emacs. See the instructions here: > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#sec-2 > > Hopefully, I've remembered all the steps. If this doesn't work for you, > come back to the list with queries. > > All the best, > Tom > > -- > Thomas S. Dye > http://www.tsdye.com > -- Evan Misshula Doctoral Student (Criminal Justice) CUNY John Jay "Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons." John Ruskin, Unto This Last, essay 2 (1862) English critic, essayist, & reformer (1819 - 1900) "Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe www.snrg-nyc.org
