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NAME
       mrtg-contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG

DESCRIPTION
       If you have written an extension to mrtg or created a bug fix, please consider contributing it to the project. As I get
       quite a number of contributions every week, here are a few guidelines which explain how to contribute so that I can use
       the contribution without too much additional work.

   Translations
       MRTG messages have been translated to a number of languages but there are still many which have not been covered yet. If
       you want to add yours, go into the mrtg-2.16.4/translate directory and follow the instructions given in the README file.

   Patches
       When you have created your modification or extension to mrtg and want to submit it to me, please crate a patch for the
       files which you have modified.  Do not send entire files unless they are new.

       To create a patch, get hold of a copy of GNU diff (Many Unix systems will have this installed already. In the NT world
       you might want to get http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ to get all the nice GNU tools available.)  and type

        diff --unified --ignore-space-change old-file new-file > simple.patch

       or if you have modified several files do

        diff --recursive --unified --ignore-space-change old-dir/ new-dir/ >long.patch

   Documentation
       All documentation of mrtg is done with the perl POD system. If you want to learn about it, type

        perldoc perlpod

       and read the instructions. If you have bugfixes or additions to the existing documents, make sure you modify the POD
       files and not the html or txt versions.

       I take documentation very seriously. Whenever you create a new feature for mrtg which you want to get included in the
       official release, your patch must also contain modifications for the relevant pod file in the doc tree or for the
       documentation sections of cfgmaker and indexmaker.

ADDRESS
       Send your patches, translations and contributions to Tobias Oetiker <tobiAToetiker.ch>

AUTHOR
       Tobias Oetiker <tobiAToetiker.ch>



2.16.4                                                     2010-05-17                                            MRTG-CONTRIB(1)