Revision as of 23:58, 6 August 2008

Overview

A patch is a portion of source code (fix or addition) that can be directly applied to the main ODAMEX source code.

Benefits

There are some benefits for yourself and others to be gained from submitting a patch:

• Helps ODAMEX in terms of stability and robustness, or maybe adds a new feature that generally makes the game more enjoyable to play.
• If you're a newbie developer, it can improve your programming language skills.
• If you're an advanced developer, it can improve your knowledge of the doom source code.
• If you submit several patches, you will be included on the credits/contributors list (and eventually gain developer svn write access)
• If you submit big patches, including ones that fix major crashes and or add some feature that makes odamex so much better, you will be granted svn write access

Guidelines for patches

• Be sure you have the latest svn revision to ensure that you aren't fixing something that has already been fixed.
• Patches must comply with the coding standard

Sending us a patch

Patch submission can be made using one of the MAINTAINERS email addresses.

External Links

• diff utility
• patch utility