From e10fe2110120cd1be95b698e8c222ef7f627ec52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ton Voon Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 20:45:44 +0000 Subject: Updated policy on contributed plugins git-svn-id: https://nagiosplug.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/trunk@1573 f882894a-f735-0410-b71e-b25c423dba1c diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml index ea4508b..15920af 100644 --- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml +++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml @@ -809,8 +809,22 @@ update the THANKS.in file. Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution. -
New plugins +
Contributed plugins + 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 NagiosExchange. + + 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. + + The aim is to distribute only code that the Nagios Plugin team are responsible for. + +
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New plugins If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to the official 3rd party plugin repository, NagiosExchange. @@ -823,7 +837,8 @@ update the THANKS.in file. - Include copyright and license information in all files + Include copyright and license information in all files. Copyright must be solely + granted to the Nagios Plugin Development Team The standard command options are supported (--help, --version, -- cgit v0.10-9-g596f