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NAME

       contrib - Contribution Guidelines for MRTG

SYNOPSIS

       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 guide lines 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-2.9.17/translate directory, and follow the instructions given in the README file.

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 bug fixes of additions to the existing documents, make sure you modify the POD files and not the
       HTML or txt versions.

PATCHES

       When you have created your modification or extension to mrtg and want to submit it to me, please create 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 file.orig file > simple.patch

       or if you have modified several files do

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

DOCUMENTATION

       I take documentation very seriously. When ever 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 <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>

AUTHOR

       Tobias Oetiker <oetiker@ee.ethz.ch>

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