svn commit: r45170 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing
Eitan Adler
eadler at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 30 02:47:54 UTC 2014
Author: eadler
Date: Mon Jun 30 02:47:53 2014
New Revision: 45170
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/45170
Log:
uuencoding is no longer required for submission of patches to the bug
tracker.
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Mon Jun 30 02:47:52 2014 (r45169)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.xml Mon Jun 30 02:47:53 2014 (r45170)
@@ -261,9 +261,8 @@
<emphasis>do not</emphasis> use cut-and-paste because
cut-and-paste turns tabs into spaces and makes them unusable.
When patches are a lot larger than 20KB, consider compressing
- them (eg. with &man.gzip.1; or &man.bzip2.1;) and using
- &man.uuencode.1; to include their compressed form in your
- problem report.</para>
+ them (eg. with &man.gzip.1; or &man.bzip2.1;) prior to
+ uploading them.</para>
<para>After filing a report, you should receive confirmation
along with a tracking number. Keep this tracking number so
@@ -360,14 +359,10 @@
<literal>[PATCH]</literal> in the synopsis of the
report.</para>
- <indexterm>
- <primary><command>uuencode</command></primary>
- </indexterm>
-
<para>If you feel it appropriate (e.g. you have added, deleted,
or renamed files), bundle your changes into a
- <command>tar</command> file and run the &man.uuencode.1;
- program on it. Archives created with &man.shar.1; are also
+ <command>tar</command> file.
+ Archives created with &man.shar.1; are also
welcome.</para>
<para>If your change is of a potentially sensitive nature, such
@@ -391,7 +386,7 @@
<para>In the case of a significant contribution of a large body
work, or the addition of an important new feature to FreeBSD,
it becomes almost always necessary to either send changes as
- uuencoded tar files or upload them to a web or FTP site for
+ tar files or upload them to a web or FTP site for
other people to access. If you do not have access to a web or
FTP site, ask on an appropriate FreeBSD mailing list for
someone to host the changes for you.</para>
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