How to submit patches?

[Smith Norton <sm...@gmail.com>]

Is there any guideline for submission of Patches? Should the patch be
against the last stable version, i.e Nutch 0.9 or something else like
the latest code in the CVS?

I also keep finding about 'trunk' very often. I am a newbie to open
source way of doing projects, so it would be great if you could
explain what 'trunk' is all aobut. Any pointers where I can read more
is also fine.

Re: How to submit patches?

[Michael Wechner <mi...@wyona.com>]

Smith Norton wrote:

>Is there any guideline for submission of Patches? Should the patch be
>against the last stable version, i.e Nutch 0.9 or something else like
>the latest code in the CVS?
>  
>

IIRC Nutch is using SVN (http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html)

>I also keep finding about 'trunk' very often. I am a newbie to open
>source way of doing projects, so it would be great if you could
>explain what 'trunk' is all aobut. Any pointers where I can read more
>is also fine.
>  
>

normally the most recent source code is located within the trunk 
directory and hence refered to as trunk, e.g.

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/nutch/trunk/

Patches should be submitted via Jira

http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/issue_tracking.html

HTH

Michael


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Re: How to submit patches?

[Doğacan Güney <do...@gmail.com>]

On 8/21/07, Smith Norton <sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the quick replies. If I do not wish to use svn and the
> svn diff am I allowed to submit patches against Nutch 0.9 generated
> using diff -au command?

Of course you are allowed :). However, most developers use latest
trunk so sending a patch against an older version may make it
difficult to review your patch, especially if your patch doesn't apply
against trunk.

>
> On 8/21/07, Doğacan Güney <do...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/21/07, Smith Norton <sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Is there any guideline for submission of Patches? Should the patch be
> > > against the last stable version, i.e Nutch 0.9 or something else like
> > > the latest code in the CVS?
> >
> > Nutch wiki has a good article: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HowToContribute
> >
> > >
> > > I also keep finding about 'trunk' very often. I am a newbie to open
> > > source way of doing projects, so it would be great if you could
> > > explain what 'trunk' is all aobut. Any pointers where I can read more
> > > is also fine.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Doğacan Güney
> >
>


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Re: How to submit patches?

[Smith Norton <sm...@gmail.com>]

Thank you for the quick replies. If I do not wish to use svn and the
svn diff am I allowed to submit patches against Nutch 0.9 generated
using diff -au command?

On 8/21/07, Doğacan Güney <do...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/07, Smith Norton <sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any guideline for submission of Patches? Should the patch be
> > against the last stable version, i.e Nutch 0.9 or something else like
> > the latest code in the CVS?
>
> Nutch wiki has a good article: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HowToContribute
>
> >
> > I also keep finding about 'trunk' very often. I am a newbie to open
> > source way of doing projects, so it would be great if you could
> > explain what 'trunk' is all aobut. Any pointers where I can read more
> > is also fine.
> >
>
>
> --
> Doğacan Güney
>

Re: How to submit patches?

[Doğacan Güney <do...@gmail.com>]

On 8/21/07, Smith Norton <sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any guideline for submission of Patches? Should the patch be
> against the last stable version, i.e Nutch 0.9 or something else like
> the latest code in the CVS?

Nutch wiki has a good article: http://wiki.apache.org/nutch/HowToContribute

>
> I also keep finding about 'trunk' very often. I am a newbie to open
> source way of doing projects, so it would be great if you could
> explain what 'trunk' is all aobut. Any pointers where I can read more
> is also fine.
>


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