HACKING

Hacking on the Eye of Mate
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o spec file:
  People from the mate packaging project are welcome to contribute fixes for
  the spec file.

o build fixes:
  "build sheriff commits welcome". Please send a mail with your patch to either
  the maintainers or eom-list@gnome.org. If you don't know what "build sheriff"
  means please read the mail by Michael Meeks:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mate-hackers/2002-March/msg00051.html

o In all other cases the following rules apply:

The code for Eye of Mate was written with several goals in mind:

	- maintainable,
        - extensible,
	- correct,
	- documented.

If you want to work on EOM as well, please read the MATE Programming
Guidelines first, understand their purpose, and keep them in mind when
writing code for EOM.

If you have a patch you would like to put into EOM, please file a bug
using http://bugzilla.gnome.org for the product EOM and attach the
patch to it.  This way your submisson won't get lost.