[tz] [PATCH] * CONTRIBUTING: New file.

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Aug 26 14:39:57 UTC 2014


Thanks, I pushed the attached patch to the experimental repository.
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From 6a8cac5e8969b9ec6b343148afac49bf6d902b1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 07:37:17 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] * CONTRIBUTING: Prefer an https URL, as that's
 friendlier

to people without a GitHub.  (Thanks to Tony Finch.)
* NEWS: Add thanks, and spell it "GitHub".
---
 CONTRIBUTING | 4 ++--
 NEWS         | 7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 5586ec8..358bc20 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Git repository.  If you use Git the following workflow may be helpful:
 
   * Copy the experimental repository.
 
-      git clone git at github.com:eggert/tz.git
+      git clone https://github.com/eggert/tz.git
       cd tz
 
   * Get current with the master branch.
@@ -64,6 +64,6 @@ Git repository.  If you use Git the following workflow may be helpful:
   * Start anew by getting current with the master branch again
     (the second step above).
 
-Please do not create issues or pull requests on Github, as the
+Please do not create issues or pull requests on GitHub, as the
 proper procedure for proposing and distributing patches is via
 email as illustrated above.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b031a32..b8ef455 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -132,7 +132,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
   Changes affecting documentation and commentary
 
     A new file CONTRIBUTING is distributed.  (Thanks to Tim Parenti for
-    suggesting a CONTRIBUTING file, and to Walter Harms for debugging it.)
+    suggesting a CONTRIBUTING file, and to Tony Finch and Walter Harms
+    for debugging it.)
 
     The man pages have been updated to use function prototypes, and
     to document thread-safe variants like localtime_r.
@@ -696,7 +697,7 @@ Release 2013f - 2013-09-24 23:37:36 -0700
 
   Changes affecting version-control only
 
-    The experimental github repository now contains annotated and
+    The experimental GitHub repository now contains annotated and
     signed tags for recent releases, e.g., '2013e' for Release 2013e.
     Releases are tagged starting with 2012e; earlier releases were
     done differently, and tags would either not have a simple name or
@@ -1127,7 +1128,7 @@ Release 2012i - 2012-11-03 12:57:09 -0700
   AWK now defaults to 'awk', not 'nawk'.
   The shell in tzselect now defaults to /bin/bash, but this can
   be overridden by specifying KSHELL.
-  The main web page now mentions the unofficial github repository.
+  The main web page now mentions the unofficial GitHub repository.
   (Thanks to Mike Frysinger.)
 
   Tarball signatures can now be built by running 'make signatures'.
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