Submitting Patches

If you would like to send a patch then please raise an Issue of type 'patch' or 'enhancement' in Issues and attach your patch to it as an attachment. If there is an existing issue raised then attach a patch to that issue as a candidate fix/implementation.

Patches should be created by doing an "svn diff" against a current checkout. If you have new files, you can get svn to include them in the diff by doing an "svn add" on the file (you do not need subversion commit access to do this). The "svn diff" will then include the new files.

All patches should be zero-based i.e. should apply with patch -p0 < mychanges.patch. This should be the default type of patch generated from a "svn diff". If in doubt, please test your patch.

Patches for new features should almost always be against trunk. Bugfixes can be submitted against a branch checkout of the associated release.

Please make sure that your submitted code conforms to the StyleGuide. It's especially important to javadoc and comment your code so that others can understand it and maintain it.