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Purpose : developer manual
- Copyright (C) 2001-2018 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Privoxy Developers https://www.privoxy.org/
See LICENSE.
========================================================================
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<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/copyright.html">Copyright</ulink>
- &my-copy; 2001-2018 by
+ &my-copy; 2001-2020 by
<ulink url="https://www.privoxy.org/">Privoxy Developers</ulink>
</subscript>
</pubdate>
<para>
The first step is to join the <ulink
url="https://lists.privoxy.org/mailman/listinfo/privoxy-devel">privoxy-devel mailing list</ulink>.
- You can submit your ideas or, even better, patches. Patches are best
- submitted to the Sourceforge tracker set up for this purpose, but
- can be sent to the list for review too.
+ You can submit your ideas or, even better, patches.
+ Patches can also be submitted to the
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/patches/">Sourceforge patch tracker</ulink>.
</para>
<para>
- You will also need to have a git package installed, which will
- entail having ssh installed as well, in order to access the git repository.
+ You will also need to have a git package installed,
+ in order to access the git repository.
Having the GNU build tools is also going to be important (particularly,
autoconf and gmake).
</para>
<sect2 id="gitaccess"><title>Access to Git</title>
<para>
The project's Git repository is hosted at the
- <ulink url="https://privoxy.org/">Privoxy site.</ulink>
- The Git repository URL is
- <literal>ssh://git@git.privoxy.org:23/git/privoxy.git</literal>,
- the central repository is called <literal>privoxy</literal>, and the
+ <ulink url="https://privoxy.org/">Privoxy website</ulink>.
+ For Privoxy team members with push privileges the Git repository URL is
+ <literal>ssh://git@git.privoxy.org:23/git/privoxy.git</literal>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Contributors without push privileges can
+ <quote>git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git</quote>.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The central repository is called <literal>privoxy</literal>, and the
source branch is called <literal>master</literal>. Subfolders exist
within the project for target-dependent build and packaging tools, each
including the name of the target operating system in their name (e.g.
<para>
Note that near a major public release, we get more cautious.
There is always the possibility to submit a patch to the <ulink
- url="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=311118&group_id=11118&func=browse">patch
+ url="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/patches/">patch
tracker</ulink> instead.
</para>
</listitem>
Alternately, proposed changes can be submitted as patches output by
<literal>git format-patch</literal> to the privoxy-devel mailing list
or alternatively to the patch tracker on Sourceforge:
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=311118">
- https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=11118&atid=311118</ulink>.
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/patches/">
+ https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/patches/</ulink>.
Then ask for peer review.
</para>
</listitem>
<para>
All formal documents are maintained in Docbook SGML and located in the
<computeroutput>doc/source/*</computeroutput> directory. You will need
- <ulink url="http://www.docbook.org">Docbook</ulink>, the Docbook
+ <ulink url="https://www.docbook.org/">Docbook</ulink>, the Docbook
DTD's and the Docbook modular stylesheets (or comparable alternatives),
and either <application>jade</application> or
<application>openjade</application> (recommended) installed in order to
</sect2>
<sect2 id="beforerelease">
- <title>Before the Release: Freeze</title>
+ <title>Before the Release</title>
<para>
The following <emphasis>must be done by one of the
developers</emphasis> prior to each new release.
<para>
All documentation should be rebuilt:
<programlisting>
+ $ make man
$ make dok
+ $ make dok-man
$ make dok-tidy
- $ make man
$ make config-file
</programlisting>
Finished docs should be then be committed to Git (for those
<listitem>
<para>
Tag all files in Git with the version number with
- <quote><command>cvs tag v_X_Y_Z</command></quote>.
+ <quote><command>git tag v_X_Y_Z</command></quote>.
Don't use vX_Y_Z, ver_X_Y_Z, v_X.Y.Z (won't work) etc.
</para>
</listitem>
<programlisting>
mkdir dist # delete or choose different name if it already exists
cd dist
- cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa login
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa export -r v_X_Y_Z current
+ git clone https://www.privoxy.org/git/privoxy.git
+ cd privoxy
+ git checkout v_X_Y_Z
</programlisting>
<para>
be reset to one if this is the first RPM for
<replaceable class="parameter">dist</replaceable> which is built from version
X.Y.Z. Check the
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">file
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/">file
list</ulink> if unsure. Else, it must be set to the highest already available RPM
release number for that version plus one.
</para>
</para>
</sect3>
- <sect3 id="newrelease-os2"><title>OS/2</title>
- <para>
- First, <emphasis>make sure that you have freshly exported the right
- version into an empty directory</emphasis>. (See "Building and releasing
- packages" above). Then get the OS/2 Setup module:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ijbswa co os2setup
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- You will need a mix of development tools.
- The main compilation takes place with IBM Visual Age C++.
- Some ancillary work takes place with GNU tools, available from
- various sources like hobbes.nmsu.edu.
- Specificially, you will need <filename>autoheader</filename>,
- <filename>autoconf</filename> and <filename>sh</filename> tools.
- The packaging takes place with WarpIN, available from various sources, including
- its home page: <ulink url="http://www.xworkplace.org/">xworkplace</ulink>.
- </para>
- <para>
- Change directory to the <filename>os2setup</filename> directory.
- Edit the os2build.cmd file to set the final executable filename.
- For example,
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- installExeName='privoxyos2_setup_X.Y.Z.exe'
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- Next, edit the <filename>IJB.wis</filename> file so the release number matches
- in the <filename>PACKAGEID</filename> section:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- PACKAGEID="Privoxy Team\Privoxy\Privoxy Package\X\Y\Z"
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- You're now ready to build. Run:
- </para>
- <programlisting>
- os2build
-</programlisting>
- <para>
- You will find the WarpIN-installable executable in the
- <filename>./files</filename> directory. Upload this anonymously to
- <filename>uploads.sourceforge.net/incoming</filename>, create a release
- for it, and you're done. Use the release notes and Change Log from the
- source tarball package.
- </para>
- </sect3>
-
<sect3 id="newrelease-solaris"><title>Solaris</title>
<para>
Login to Sourceforge's compilefarm via ssh:
<ulink url="mailto:privoxy-announce@lists.privoxy.org">announce mailing
list</ulink>, Subject: "Version X.Y.Z available for download". Be sure to
include the
- <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11118">
+ <ulink url="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/files/">
download location</ulink>, the release notes and the Changelog. Also, post an
updated News item on the project page Sourceforge, and update the Home
page and docs linked from the Home page (see below). Other news sites
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