MaintNotes: issues and contributions to friendly 3rd party projects
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 14, 2025 at 10:33 UTC
9ff87b6cc9ab534943618eb5dc26d606e0d2321c
1 file changed
+40
MaintNotes
+40
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@ As an anti-spam measure, the mailing list software rejects messages
29
that are not text/plain and drops them on the floor. If you are a
30
GMail user, you'd want to make sure "Plain text mode" is checked.
31
32
+The mailing list, while welcoming non code contributions like bug
33
+reports, mostly discusses updating contents of the source tree to the
34
+(core) Git software, including documentation "git help" gives.
35
+Non-code contributions may have places other than the mailing list
36
+that are more preferrable. See the "other places" section near the
37
+end.
38
+
39
Before sending patches, please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches
40
and Documentation/CodingGuidelines to familiarize yourself with the
41
project convention.
@@ -293,3 +300,36 @@ own authoritative repository and maintainers:
300
When sending proposed updates and fixes to these parts of the system,
301
please base your patches on these trees, not git.git (the former two
302
even have different directory structures).
303
+
304
+
305
+* Other places.
306
+
307
+As the Git ecosystem has grown larger over the years, there are
308
+documentation sites and third-party tools that have been created and
309
+maintained by friendly third-parties. Reporting issues with them to
310
+the main mailing list is still welcomed by the list participants, but
311
+most likely you will be asked to contact these third-parties directly.
312
+
313
+ - git-scm website (https://www.git-scm.com/) is maintained directly
314
+ on its GitHub repository and its issues are managed there.
315
+
316
+ https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/issues
317
+ https://github.com/git/git-scm.com/?tab=readme-ov-file#contributing
318
+
319
+ - Git for Windows (https://gitforwindows.org/) is a project that
320
+ packages (core) Git software with some other goodies for the
321
+ Windows platform. They manage their own issues list and their
322
+ changes are managed directly on GitHub via pull requests, focused
323
+ primarily on Windows specific issues and their additions (like
324
+ Windows installer).
325
+
326
+ https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/How-to-participate
327
+ https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues
328
+
329
+ - The online edition of ProGit Book hosted at git-scm.com/book/ is
330
+ managed by the Pro Git book folks, and they maintain their work and
331
+ issues at their GitHub repository.
332
+
333
+ https://github.com/progit/progit2/issues
334
+ https://github.com/progit/progit2/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
335
+