Re: [dita-ot] How to contribute to DITA-OT if you did too many improvements?

[Jarno Elovirta]

Send pull requests, one feature per pull request (as not all enhancements may be accepted and it’s easier to verify them). You can send one huge pull request, but going through that will take a long time and will like not land soon.

Jarno

On 24 Sep 2015, at 15:30 pm, Helmut Scherzer <scherze...@gmail.com> wrote:

After extensive work I have improved the DITA-OT.org.dita.pdf2 (currently as customized plug-in) significantly (based on version 2.1). There are many new features and the actual PDF output looks highly professional. Only some examples ...

 

- chapter numbering

- oxygen comments appear as Acrobat comments

- trace feature (create/delete) visible in Acrobat

- marginalia support

- extended 'compact' function for lists and list items

- fixed several bugs

- more flexibility in notes (img | label

- ...

 

and about 30 other improvements which might be appreciated by the community. I would want to offer the extensive work to the public but I do have a problem here ... The amount of works is more than approx. 3000 LoC and it touches about 60 stylesheets from the PDF2.

 

That means ... I cannot contribute with incremental changes (which GIT is supposed to receive). It is a major change - yet I'm sure the community will really appreciate.

 

Question: What should I do (who to contact) to donate the work to the community, or possibly as input to a future DITA-OT release?

Thanks for caring ... Helmut

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[Helmut Scherzer]

Thanks Jarno, (your are fast !)

 

that's exactly my problem. I cannot afford the time to dispatch every change because quite a lot of them are related and do not just touch a single point. That makes the entire thing powerful, yet I cannot afford the dispatch into incremental changes (which you correctly suggest). And that's why I'm asking whether any other idea is possible.

 

My alternative is - not to contribute, but I think that would be a pity for the community because the entire DITA-OT got really a momentum that can be counted as a significant overall improvement. I have samples ... currently my efforts do certainly compete with professionally available extensions. Any other ideas how to contribute ?

[Jarno Elovirta]

In that case, merge your work to `develop` and make sure it works there. Then, submit a pull request. People can then extract individual features from your pull request and submit them as separate PRs, to distribute the work.

J

[Helmut Scherzer]

Thanks Jarno, I will consider such a solution.

I appreciate your helpful and fast response !

Cheers ...  Helmut

Am Donnerstag, 24. September 2015 14:44:58 UTC+2 schrieb Jarno Elovirta:

In that case, merge your work to `develop` and make sure it works there. Then, submit a pull request. People can then extract individual features from your pull request and submit them as separate PRs, to distribute the work.

 

On 24 Sep 2015, at 15:42 pm, Helmut Scherzer <scherze...@gmail.com> wrote: