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+title: Information about sending patches for review
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+...
+
+Download TransChat from the Git repository like so:
+
+    git clone https://notabug.org/transchat/trans.chat.git
+
+Git is a version control system, used to host the site, to coordinate
+development. You can download and work on the entire website, using Git.
+
+The Git software is available on Windows, MacOS, GNU+Linux, BSD and others. We
+strongly recommend GNU+Linux or BSD, but Windows and Mac OS also work with
+Git. Search on Google for basic information about how to use Git.
+
+Some of the instructions here assume that you use GNU+Linux or BSD, so you will
+have to adapt accordingly if you use something else. The core administrators
+maintaining the website all use GNU+Linux.
+
+You can submit your patches via
+[Notabug pull requests](#how-to-submit-your-patches-via-pull-requests) or
+
+Editing the website and documentation, wiki-style
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+The website and documentation is inside the `www` directory in the
+[Git repository](#how-to-download-transchat-from-the-git-repository), in
+Pandoc flavoured Markdown. The website is generated into static HTML via Pandoc
+with the following scripts in that directory:
+
+- index.sh: generates the news feed (on the News section of the website)
+- publish.sh: converts an .md file to an .html file
+- Makefile: with calls to index.sh and publish.sh, compiles the entire
+  TransChat website
+
+Use any standard text editor (e.g. Vim, Emacs, Nano, Gedit) to edit the files,
+commit the changes and
+[send patches](#how-to-submit-your-patches-via-pull-requests).
+
+Optionally, you can install a web server (e.g. lighttpd, nginx) locally and
+set the document root to the *www* directory in your local Git repository.
+With this configuration, you can then generate your local version of the
+website and view it by typing `localhost` in your browser's URL bar.
+
+Privacy of contributors (you do not have to reveal your name or identity!)
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Contributions that you make are publicly recorded, in a Git repository which
+everyone can access. This includes the name and email address of the
+contributor.
+
+In Git, for author name and email address, you do not have to use identifying
+data. You can use TransChat Contributor and your email address could be
+specified as contributor@transchat.org.uk. You are permitted to do this, if
+you wish to maintain privacy.
+
+Of course, you can use whichever name you like.
+
+Legally speaking, all copyright is automatic under the Berne Convention of
+international copyright law. It does not matter which name, or indeed whether
+you even declare a copyright (but we do require that certain copyright
+licenses are used - read more about that on this same page).
+
+If you use a different name and email address on your commits/patches, then
+you should be fairly anonymous.
+
+General guidelines for submitting patches
+-----------------------------------------
+
+We require all patches to be submitted under a free license:
+<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html>.
+
+- For documentation, we require GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 or higher. Basically, this is required on any Web pages that you contribute, or make changes to.
+- GNU General Public License v3 is highly recommended, if you're contributing code (e.g. working on the static site generator that the site uses)
+
+If you do not agree to use one of these licenses accordingly, your contribution will be rejected.
+
+*Always* declare a license on your work! Not declaring a license means that
+the default, restrictive copyright laws apply, which would make your work
+non-free.
+
+GNU+Linux is generally recommended as the OS of choice, for TransChat
+development.
+
+General code review guidelines
+------------------------------
+
+Any member of the public can
+[submit a patch](#how-to-submit-your-patches-via-pull-requests).
+
+Your patch will be reviewed for quality assurance, and merged if accepted.
+
+How to download TransChat from the Git repository
+-------------------------------------------------
+
+In your terminal:
+
+    git clone https://notabug.org/transchat/trans.chat.git
+
+A new directory named `transchat` will have been created, containing
+transchat.
+
+How to submit your patches (via pull requests)
+----------------------------------------------
+
+Make an account on <https://notabug.org/> and navigate (while logged in) to
+<https://notabug.org/transchat/trans.chat>. Click *Fork* and in your account,
+you will have your own repository of TransChat. Clone your repository, make
+whatever changes you like to it and then push to your repository, in your
+account on NotABug.
+
+Now, navigate to <https://notabug.org/transchat/trans.chat/pulls> and click
+*New Pull Request*. 
+
+You can submit your patches there. Alternative, you can log onto the TransChat
+IRC channel and notify the channel of which patches you want reviewed, if you
+have your own Git repository with the patches.
+
+Once you have issued a Pull Request, the TransChat maintainers will be notified
+via email. If you do not receive a fast enough response from the project, then
+you could also notify the project via the `#transchat` channel on Libera.