Thanks for the info. I was going to tackle that myself today so that I
could get that benefit, and appreciate the pointers. Of course, submitting
it (along with eventual paperwork) gives me 'practical experience' with
pushing stuff back to a master repo (where my current personal project
needs won't involve much or any of the d in dvcs) and the warm fuzzy of
contributing to the project in some small way.

SDR
On Aug 25, 2012 3:17 AM, "Francis Daly" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 01:47:44AM -0600, Scott Robison wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> > 2. I am color blind. The color coding of bullet points in the "Edit User"
> > pages explaining which marks indicate what is practically worthless to me
>
> I think that is, "fossil ui" in an open checkout, then in the browser
> click Admin, Users, then the specific User ID, to get to a url very
> like http://localhost:8080/setup_uedit?id=1
>
> > Some obvious alternatives that
> > pop into my head are to use multiple bullet shapes instead of just color
> > coding the same shape or to use subscript or superscript digits or some
> > such.
>
> If it's the page mentioned above, then the source code is in
> src/setup.c. Look for the word "ueditInheritDeveloper" (in two places)
> and change "&bull;" after it to, say, "&loz; " in the first place,
> and "&loz;" in the second. (There's an extra space in the first one,
> to make it display clearer.)
>
> Then do something very similar for ueditInheritReader,
> ueditInheritAnonymous, and ueditInheritNobody -- perhaps "&dagger;",
> "&Dagger;", and leave the other one as "&bull;"?
>
> Then rebuild and test that the changes (a) break nothing; and (b)
> improve something.
>
> And then use that as your version of fossil.
>
> > 3. I would be happy to take a stab at modifying the source to implement
> the
> > stuff above, and I understand there is some sort of copyright assignment
> or
> > waiver form to be filled out...
>
> You can do what you like with your version of the code. The copyright form
> is for when you wish to have your changes included in the main repository.
>
> And the specific change above is a local display one, so you can get
> the benefit today and worry about the paperwork later ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
>         f
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