Instructions to contributors to the PennMUSH contrib/ archives:

The PennMUSH contrib/ archives are for contributions of source
code patches to PennMUSH which the developers have chosen not to
include in the distribution. Anyone may contribute to the archive
by following the instructions here.

To contribute to the archive, send your code attached to a filled-out
version of the template given below.

The ideal patch is a context diff. You can produce a context diff of a
file by using "diff -c originalfile newfile".  You can concatenate
multiple context diffs together to make a complete patch like this:

	diff -c orig1 new1 > patch
	diff -c orig2 new2 >> patch
        etc.

Diffs should be made from the top-level MUSH directory; that is,
use diff -c src/game.c.orig src/game.c.new, rather than going
to the src directory and doing diff -c game.c.orig game.c.new.

Your diff should make the minimal modifications necessary to implement
your new functionality. Remove other modifications you may have
made which do not relate to the patch. Do NOT patch the Patchlevel
file, hdrs/version.h, CHANGES*, or other files which are regularly
changed by official patches.

Patches should be given logical names which reflect their function,
and should end with the version number of PennMUSH to which they
were originally applied, in this format: name.165p3 (or whatever)

However, the Patch name: header below should be filled out with the 
name of the patch, but not the training PennMUSH version.
The Patch version: header is for the version of the patch, not the
version of PennMUSH, which has its own header.

Email your completed template (with patch included, of course) to
	pennmush-contrib@pennmush.org

					- Javelin


Template for contributed patches:

#
# Patch name: 
# Patch version:
# Author's name:
# Author's email:
# Version of PennMUSH:
# Date patch made:
# Author is willing to support (yes/no): 
# Patch format:
#
#
# This is a contributed PennMUSH patch. Its use is subject to the
# same restrictions found in PennMUSH's hdrs/copyrite.h file.
#
# No warranty is given for this patch. It is not necessarily going
# to work on your system, with any version of PennMUSH other than
# the one above, etc.
#
# If the author given above was willing to support the patch, you
# should write to the author if you have any questions or problems. Do
# *NOT* send email messages to Javelin or any PennMUSH mailing list about
# this patch!
#
# Below this line is the author's description of the patch,
# followed by the patch itself. If the patch is in context diff
# format, you'll probably apply it by typing: patch < patchfile
# in your top-level MUSH directory, unless instructed otherwise
# below.
#