[PATCH] add instructions for sending patches to Guile

[PATCH] add instructions for sending patches to Guile

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

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Hi,

on the website, contribution section
( <https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/contribute/> )
we say how to report bugs, but we do not say how to contribute
improvements.

The attached patch adds the such instructions.


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From 64d69ecd3367768ca0a082c765a2f2b5ff811f2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 16:12:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add instructions for sending patches

---
 website/apps/base/contribute-page.scm | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/website/apps/base/contribute-page.scm b/website/apps/base/contribute-page.scm
index 630f05c..78441bf 100644
--- a/website/apps/base/contribute-page.scm
+++ b/website/apps/base/contribute-page.scm
@@ -60,6 +60,22 @@
 	   "are available in "
 	   (a (@ (href "https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=guile"))
 	      "Git repositories") " at Savannah.")
+	(h2 (@ (id "patches")) "Sending patches")
+	(p "To contribute small improvements, please send patches to "
+	   (a (@ (href "mailto:guile-devel@gnu.org")) "guile-devel@gnu.org")
+       ".")
+	(ul
+	 (li "Please send a patch and commit log as produced by "
+	     (code "git format-patch") ".")
+	 (li "Please include a "
+	     (a (@ (href "http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs")) "ChangeLog-style commit log")
+	     " with your patch.")
+	 (li "If the patch changes more than about ten lines of code, we "
+	     "may ask you to assign your copyright to the FSF before it can "
+	     "be applied."))
+	(p "For larger changes, please discuss them first in the "
+	   (a (@ (href "https://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel/")) "development mailing list")
+       ".")
 	(h2 (@ (id "bugs")) "Reporting bugs")
 	(p "You do us a much-appreciated service when you report the bugs "
 	   "you find in Guile. Please don't assume we already know about "
-- 
2.45.1


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Is this OK? Is there something I should change?

Do we want patches sent to bug-guile instead of guile-devel?

Best wishes,
Arne
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