<section id="repo-convs-publishing">

    <title>Repository Publishing</title>

    <para>

        When you perform changes inside your working copy, those

        changes are local to your working copy only. In order for you

        to share your changes with others, you need to commit them up

        to the central repository the working copy you are using was

        initially downloaded from. To commit your changes up to the

        central repository you use the <command>commit</command>

        command from the Subversion's client you've installed in your

        workstation.

    </para>

    <para>

        Initially, when you get registered inside &TCAR;, you won't be

        able to publish your changes to &TCAR; immediatly. It is

        necessary that you prove your interest in contributing first

        sending a mail to the 

        url="http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel">CentOS

        Developers mailing list</ulink> (

        url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">centos-devel@centos.org</ulink>),

        preferably in conjunction with a description of the changes

        you pretend to commit. This restriction is necessary in order

        to protect the source repository from spammers.

    </para>

    <para>

        Once you've received access to publish your changes, they will

        remain valid to you and there is no need for you to request

        permission to publish new changes as long as you behave as a

        good cooperating citizen. 

    </para>

    <para>

        As a good cooperating citizen one understand of a person who

        respects the work already done by others and share ideas with

        authors before changing relevant parts of their work,

        specially in situations when the access required to realize

        the changes has been granted already.  Of course, there is a

        time when conversation has taken place, the paths has been

        traced and changing the work is so obvious that there is no

        need for you to talk about it; that's because you already did,

        you already built the trust to keep going. As complement, the

        mailing list mentioned above is available for sharing ideas in

        a way that good relationship between community citizens could

        be constantly balanced.

    </para>

    <para>

        The relationship between community citizens is monitored by

        repository administrators. Repository administrators are

        responsible of granting that everything goes the way it needs

        to go in order for &TCAR; to accomplish its mission (see 

        linkend="repo-convs-mission" />).

    </para>

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