How to Contribute
How to Contribute
How to write a driver
See doc/developers/new_drivers in our package for instructions.
How to get SVN access
For anonymous SVN read access, see the instructions on our download page. Alternatively, nightly snapshots of the SVN repositories are available. (fixme)
For write access, run the script doc/developers/genpasswd.pl in our package and follow the instructions. Let us know what part of the package you would like to work on. (fixme)
How to donate hardware to the project
Contact us.
How to join the project mailing lists
There are two lists you can subscribe to:
- A general discussion list, meant for both development and user support. You do not need to be subscribed to post.
- A SVN commits list, for watching the changes made to the SVN repositories. This list is read-only.
How to access mailing list archives
The primary mailing list archive is at: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/. It contains messages since October 28, 2001.
There is another mailing list archive at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors. It contains messages since December 31, 2004. This archive may also be accessed via a news reader: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors and RSS: http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.sensors.
And last there is a legacy archive at: http://archives.andrew.net.au/lm-sensors. It contains messages from October 28, 2001 through May 16, 2005.
How to submit a patch
Check out the latest from CVS, then copy the directory to another directory, and make your changes. Generate the diff with diff -u2 -r DIR1 DIR2. Or you can generate the diff in CVS with cvs diff -u2. Send us the patch in an email and tell us what it does.
How to REALLY help
Believe it or not, what we really need help with are:
- Answering email
- Answering support tickets
- Porting drivers to Linux 2.6
- Creating a sensors.conf database
- Reviewing patches
If you are willing to help, simply join our discussion list, and we'll help you help us.
How to get release announcements
We don't have a separate release announcement mailing list; however, we put all our releases on freshmeat: http://freshmeat.net and you can register on our freshmeat project page http://freshmeat.net/projects/lm_sensors to 'subscribe to new releases' and then freshmeat will email you announcement.
