| <sect1 id="repo-convs-publishing"> |
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| <title>Repository Publishing</title> |
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| <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 of Subversion's client 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, |
| 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. |
| </para> |
| |
| </sect1> |