Re: [avrdude-dev] ATmega48 and ATmega168 support

[Eric Weddington]

Hannes Landertshamer wrote:
> Dear Eric,
> sorry, but I'm just an ambitous user of avrdude who wants help make this
> tool better. But mainly I am electronics hardware engineer and therefore I'm
> a poor software engineer who can only write very simple C programs for
> hardware control purposes. I have no clue at all what a patch tracker is or
> how to work in a CVS and I also don't want to do this. Thus I'd like to beg
> one of youse to put these additions into that tracker.
> Best regards.
> /hannes

It's actually quite simple, all web-based, and requires zero knowledge 
of CVS.

The avrdude project resides on the Savannah website here:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avrdude>

The "Patch Manager" is nothing more than a web-based list, attached to 
the project, that helps keep track of text files (patches). The avrdude 
Patch Manager can be found here:
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?group=avrdude>

Up at the top is the link "Submit a patch". Click that, type in a 
summary, and then some text describing what the patch is. Then attach a 
text file that has the changes that you described in your email. Press 
the Submit button, and you're done.

Then, when the developers come back and are ready to do a new release, 
they can go through these patches and make sure that the CVS repository 
is updated before a new release is made. If all of these patches are in 
emails, they get lost very easily and it makes it difficult to keep 
track of them.

Thanks
--
Eric Weddington