Submitting patches for NRPE

[Mike Chesnut]

>     I cannot find any information about how to go about submitting a patch
>     for nrpe.  The one thing I've seen is that I can open a bug on
>     sourceforge, but I'm not sure where that gets me (and as I've learned,
>     we don't all agree that this is a "bug" per se to begin with).  I also
>     do not see any way to change the documentation (which apparently only
>     exists as an .odt file) to explicitly clarify the behavior.
>
>     Can anybody point me in the right direction, please?
>
> I am just a user but It does sound like a good idea eg a determinined
> behavior rather then an undetermined one.
>   Not that i agree with the lets over ride commands idea but anyway.
>
> I would suggest submitting the patch to the list and seeing if any one
> is willing to pick this up and test it.

I guess it just seems like there should be a better way... I don't see a 
public cvs/svn/git repository anywhere, I don't see any way to checkout 
the code other than downloading a tgz, I don't see any way to submit a 
patch other than emailing to the list as you've suggested.

My general question for the list is, who's working on nrpe these days? 
Isn't this an open source project?  I did find the project on 
sourceforge and created an issue.  Maybe I should attach the patch there?

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3487716&group_id=110412&atid=656217

> I dont see how but people could be relying on the existing behaviour, so
> this would require a lot of testing.

Yeah Andreas pointed that out last time I brought this up.  I can't 
imagine there are very many cases of that, though.  And even then, I 
still think it's better to make it well-defined, regardless.

> Dont forget most of the Devs are unpaid or only paid to implement
> specific feathers so they are giving there own time up so will only work
> on what they feel useful.
>
>
> Anyhow sorry for the evangelical rant.

I don't think you were ranting, nor being evangelical.  You're 
absolutely right.  I'm not asking for anybody to do any work other than 
allowing me to contribute my own work that I've already done to the 
project so that others (myself included) can benefit going forward.

Mike

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