[tiled-user] Contributing source to the project

[Bjørn Lindeijer]

Dear Pedro,

Thanks for the positive feedback, that's always nice to hear. :-) It's
also great to hear you're planning to make some improvements to Tiled,
and that you are interested in helping to make these improvements
integrated in new versions.

Quite obviously you can make integration easier by sticking with the
code style as it is, I hope this will be no problem. Also, I'd really
like to hear in advance what kind of improvements you plan to
implement, so that I can think about general usefulness and potential
conflicts. Finally, while I would understand that you'd rather work
from releases for stability reasons, I'd also ask you to keep track of
trunk development. There is a mailing list where all commits get sent,
if you're interested.

I think you should create local branches and tags as you see fit. One
change (or feature) per patch is preferred, but it's not really a
problem when things are combined into one patch as long as all changes
are accepted of course.

Note that I am currently the only developer on Tiled, and that I have
about one day a week to work on Tiled on average. I'm steadily working
my way to a 0.7.0 release, of which the new features are listed in the
CHANGES file on the trunk, while the things I still plan to do before
the release are in TODO.

Kind regards,
Bjørn

On 10/23/06, Pedro Miller Rabinovitch <miller at finalboss.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
>     I've just recently started working on Tiled and implementing its use
> in our production line. That'll require format converters and
> customizations to the interface so that our level editors can use it
> with the least trauma possible. :)
>
> In the process we'll be implementing a lot of small -- and some
> not-as-small -- changes to the software. I've already created a local
> SVN branch here so we can keep track of editing and generate patches
> later if need be, as well as keep up with the new official versions that
> are released.
>
> Is there a set of guidelines for contributing to the project? Should I
> prepare local branches/tags in any particular fashion?
>
> I hope some of the code we put forth becomes useful to people outside --
> Tiled has so far impressed me quite a bit and seems to have a lot of
> potential.
>
> Cheers,
>
>   Pedro.