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+NEW STARTERS
+
+These are the steps for adding someone to the team.
+
+Need to know:
+ - Name
+ - Sourceforge id
+ - Type of member (translator, developer, release manager, project administrator)
+
+1. Add member to nagiosplug-team mailing list and to the nagiosplug-checkins
+ mailing list (via Privacy Options)
+2. Add Sourceforge access:
+ - Translator: CVS access, Shell access, Release Tech (no)
+ - Developer: CVS access, Shell access, Release Tech (no), Task Manager (A&T),
+ Forums (Moderator), Doc Manager (Editor). Need to set tracker
+ access individually
+3. Add to CVS avail file:
+ - Translator: Add member to translation files
+ - Developer: Add member to CVSROOT/avail for all files
+
diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
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@@ -637,14 +637,16 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
</section>
<section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
- <para>If you would like others to use your plugins and have it included in
- the standard distribution, please include patches for the relevant
- configuration files, in particular "configure.in". Otherwise submitted
- plugins will be included in the contrib directory.</para>
-
- <para>Plugins in the contrib directory are going to be migrated to the
- standard plugins/plugin-scripts directory as time permits and per user
- requests. The minimum requirements are:</para>
+
+ <para>If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to
+ the official 3rd party plugin repository,
+ <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>We are not accepting requests for inclusion of plugins into
+ our distribution at the moment, but when we do, these are the minimum
+ requirements:
+ </para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -663,75 +665,21 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>It should also follow code format guidelines, and use functions from
-utils (perl or c or sh) rather than cooking it's own</para>
+utils (perl or c or sh) rather than using its own</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Includes patches to configure.in if required (via the EXTRAS list if
+ it will only work on some platforms)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>If possible, please submit a test harness. Documentation on sample
+ tests coming soon</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
- <para>New plugins should be submitted via
- <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&amp;atid=541465">SourceForge's
- tracker system for Nagiosplug new plugins</ulink>
- and be announced to the nagiosplug-devel mailing list.</para>
-
- <para>For new plugins, provide a diff to add to the EXTRAS list (configure.in)
- unless you are fairly sure that the plugin will work for all platforms with
- no non-standard software added.</para>
-
- <para>If possible please submit a test harness. Documentation on sample
- tests coming soon.</para>
</section>
</section>
-
-<section id="UsingSourceforge"><title>Using Sourceforge</title>
-<table id="Projectmemberaccess"><title>Project Member Access</title>
- <tgroup cols="9">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry><para>Member type</para></entry>
- <entry><para>CVS Access</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Shell Access</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Release Tech</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Tracker Manager</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Task Manager</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Forums</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Doc Manager</para></entry>
- <entry><para>News</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Screenshots</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Notes</para></entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry><para>Translator</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
- <entry><para>No</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Add developer to CVSROOT/avail for translation files</para></entry>
- </row>
- <row>
- <entry><para>Developer</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Yes</para></entry>
- <entry><para>No</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>A&amp;T</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Moderator</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Editor</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>-</para></entry>
- <entry><para>Need to set tracker access individually. Add developer to CVSROOT/avail for all files</para></entry>
- </row>
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
-</table>
-<para>Add all members to the nagiosplug-team mailing list</para>
-</section>
</article>
</book>