Re: Macros for writing (German) letters?

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Alexis,

At 2024-01-08T14:00:19+0100, Alexis wrote:
> A question for the groff maintainers:
> What does it take for a new macro package to be considered for
> inclusion in groff (e.g.: contrib), so folks like Tim feel the macro
> package is "integrated into the groff ecosphere?"

I reckon it's something like this.

1.  Meet a need that is shared by others.
2.  Implement a solution of reasonable quality.
3.  Affirm that the work is one's own, or derived from another work that
    is not copyright-encumbered.
4.  Offer the contribution to the public under a well understood Free
    Software license.
5.  Ask the groff developers to incorporate it, either via a Savannah
    ticket or this mailing list.

This is pretty much what we did when Dorai Sitaram contributed
rfc1345.tmac.

If you read through the thread starting at

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2021-01/msg00004.html

and click through the "Thread Next" links (ignoring emails where the
Subject line changes), then you'll get a pretty good view of how the
last new "contrib"-ution from someone who didn't already have commit
permission to our Git repository was made and incorporated.

Regards,
Branden

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