v01INF4: Guidelines for postings to comp.sources.x

[Mike Wexler]

Submitted-by: mikew at wyse.com (Mike Wexler)
Posting-number: Volume 1, Info 4
Archive-name: guidelines.1

To make life easier for both me and the users of the comp.sources.x
newsgroup, I will require that the following be included in postings.
	1.	shell commands to extract all the files - This means
		the postings should be in shar format.
	2.	source code - Fonts in bdf format are ok.
	3.	a README file - This should be a brief description
		of what this program does.
	4.	a Makefile
	5.	a man page
	6.	a patchlevel.h -- This keeps track of how many official
		patches have been applied.  When you send out a 
		modification it should be in context diff format 
		and it should update the patchlevel.h file.
If any of the above are not included, I will tell the poster and
wait until they are included before I post the program.
The following things should be included, but are not required yet.
	1.	A list of authors and their copying policy.
	2.	#include <X11/Xos.h> instead of things like types.h, strings.h
		and time.h
	3.	use -display displayname and -geometry geomspec instead of old
		style.
	4.	filenames that are 12 or fewer characters long
	5.	an Imakefile
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Mike Wexler(wyse!mikew)    Phone: (408)433-1000 x1330