The text below explains the rules for participating in Org mode development. * Org maintenance Org maintenance is explained on Worg: see [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-maintenance.html][org-maintenance]]. * Main contribution rules 1. The master git repository is hosted publicly at [[https://orgmode.org][orgmode.org]]. Anyone can get a clone of the current repository state using the command : git clone https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode.git Having a clone is sufficient to start hacking and to produce patches that can easily and consistently be applied to the main repository. 2. People who are interested in participating to the Org mode development can do so by sending patches to this address: : emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 3. An interested developer can also request push access to the central repository by creating an account on code.orgmode.org and by sending her/his user info to the maintainer. After you have been added as a user with push privileges, clone the repository through ssh using : git clone git@code.orgmode.org:bzg/org-mode.git By requesting push access, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed with the following rules: - Org mode is part of GNU Emacs. Therefore, we need to be very conscious about changes moving into the Org mode core. These can originate only from people who have signed the appropriate papers with the Free Software Foundation. The files to which this applies are: - all *.el files in the lisp directory of the repository - org.texi, orgcard.tex in the doc directory - the corresponding ChangeLog files - Before making any significant changes, please explain and discuss them on the mailing list [[mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org][emacs-orgmode@gnu.org]]. This does obviously not apply to people who are maintaining their own contributions to Org mode. Please, just use the new mechanism to make sure all changes end up in the right place. We value a nice tone in our discussions: please check and respect the [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html][GNU Kind Communications Guidelines]]. - Org mode no longer uses ChangeLog entries to document changes. Instead, special commit messages are used, as described in the `CONTRIBUTE' file in the main Emacs repository. - Among other things, Org mode is widely appreciated because of its simplicity, cleanness and consistency. We should try hard to preserve this and ask everyone to keep this in mind when proposing changes. See [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html][worg/org-contribute]] for more guidance on how to contribute effectively. * The =contrib/= directory The git repository used to contain a =contrib/= directory, which was moved to https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-contrib before Org 9.5, which see.