On 31 Jul 2002, it is alleged that Bernard D. Tremblay (Ben) sauntered in to netscape.public.mozilla.documentation and loudly proclaimed:
> Christian Biesinger wrote: > >> riscky schrieb: >> > How does one go about checking out a webpage to edit to make a > > >> patch... or what ever needs to be doing to fix a problem with a > >> mozilla.org page? >> If it's on mozilla.org: >> Click "Edit this page" >> Edit >> you now get a patch. mail it to the owner of the page > > Is that all there is to it, really?! > I've rarely dared to use that function ... never had any sense of what the > consequences were, how the changes would ramify. > I'd be interested in hearing just what "get a patch" consists of. > > h_b When you edit the page, it'll generate a diff. Rather than committing the changes yourself (which you can't do unless you have CVS access), Christian is suggesting that you e-mail that diff (the page that is generated, I assume) to the page owner. IIRC, Gerv was unhappy with this way of proceeding (generating the diff and then e-mailing it), and I can't really blame him, but that seems to be the most sensible route -- unless, of course, you want to commit the changes yourself and run the risk of /really/ p***ing off the page owner, &c, &c. /b.
