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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index ea4508b6..15920afe 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -809,8 +809,22 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para> Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para> </section> - <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title> + <section id="Contributedplugins"><title>Contributed plugins</title> + <para>Plugins that have been contributed to the project and + distributed with the Nagios Plugin files are held in the contrib/ directory and are not installed + by default. These plugins are not officially supported by the team. + The current policy is that these plugins should be owned and maintained by the original + contributor, preferably hosted on <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>. + </para> + <para>If patches or bugs are raised to an contributed plugin, we will start communications with the + original contributor, but seek to remove the plugin from our distribution. + </para> + <para>The aim is to distribute only code that the Nagios Plugin team are responsible for. + </para> + </section> + + <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title> <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>. @@ -823,7 +837,8 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para> <orderedlist> <listitem> - <para>Include copyright and license information in all files</para> + <para>Include copyright and license information in all files. Copyright must be solely + granted to the Nagios Plugin Development Team</para> </listitem> <listitem> <para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version, |