[Nagiosplug-checkins] SF.net SVN: nagiosplug:[2192] nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines. sgml

[dermoth at users.sourceforge.net]

Revision: 2192
          http://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/nagiosplug/?rev=2192&view=rev
Author:   dermoth
Date:     2009-05-19 22:16:26 +0000 (Tue, 19 May 2009)

Log Message:
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Talk about Git instead of CVS

Update the Developer Guidelines to reflect the fact that our development
is done using Git instead of CVS these days (as noted by Chris Pepper on
the "nagiosplug-devel" list).

While at it, apply another few minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Holger Weiss <holger at zedat.fu-berlin.de>

Modified Paths:
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    nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml

Modified: nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
===================================================================
--- nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml	2009-05-19 22:16:16 UTC (rev 2191)
+++ nagiosplug/trunk/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml	2009-05-19 22:16:26 UTC (rev 2192)
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       </author>
     </authorgroup>
 
-    <pubdate>2006</pubdate>
+    <pubdate>2009</pubdate>
     <title>Nagios plug-in development guidelines</title>
 	
     <revhistory>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     </revhistory>
 
 	<copyright>
-		<year>2000 - 2006</year> 
+		<year>2000 - 2009</year>
 		<holder>Nagios Plugins Development Team</holder>
 	</copyright>
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the
     different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
 
-        <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2006
+        <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2009
         (Nagios Plugins Team)</para>
 
         <para>Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
@@ -50,18 +50,18 @@
 	<para>
 	Nagios plugins are developed to the GNU standard, so any OS which is supported by GNU
 	should run the plugins. While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release 
-	is very small, to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the 
-	minimum levels of software required:
+	are very basic, developing from the Git repository requires additional software to be
+	installed. These are the minimum levels of software required:
 
 	<literallayout>
-	gnu make 3.79
-	automake 1.9.2
-	autoconf 2.59
-	gnu m4 1.4.2
-	gnu libtool 1.5
+	GNU make 3.79
+	GNU automake 1.9.2
+	GNU autoconf 2.59
+	GNU m4 1.4.2
+	GNU libtool 1.5
 	</literallayout>
 
-	To compile from CVS, after you have checked out the code, run:
+	To compile from Git, after you have cloned the repository, run:
 	<literallayout>
 	tools/setup
 	./configure
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@
 update the THANKS.in file.</para>
         <para>If you have a change that is useful for noting in the next release, please
 	update the NEWS file.</para>
-	<para>All CVS commit comments will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
+	<para>All commit comments will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
 	</para>
 	</section>
 
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@
 	<section id="Patches"><title>Patches</title>
 	<para>If you have a bug patch, please supply a unified or context diff against the
 	version you are using. For new features, please supply a diff against
-	the CVS HEAD version.</para>
+	the Git "master" branch.</para>
 
 	<para>Patches should be submitted via 
 	<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&atid=397599">SourceForge's


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