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@section contributorGuideReview Going through a review
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Once all those are checked and working, feel free to create a ticket
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-for your patch (http://bind10.isc.org) or attach your patch to the
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-existing ticket if there is one. You may drop a note to bind10 or dhcp
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+for your patch at http://bind10.isc.org/ or attach your patch to an
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+existing ticket if you have fixed it. It would be nice if you also join the \c bind10 or \c dhcp
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chatroom saying that you have submitted a patch. Alternatively, you
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-may send a note to bind10-dev or bind10-dhcp lists.
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+may send a note to the \c bind10-dev or \c bind10-dhcp mailing lists.
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Here's the tricky part. One of BIND10 developers will review your
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patch, but it may not happen immediately. Unfortunately, developers
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-are usually working under tight schedule, so any extra unplanned
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-review work sometimes make take a while. Having said that, we value
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+are usually working under a tight schedule, so any extra unplanned
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+review work may take a while sometimes. Having said that, we value
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external contributions very much and will do whatever we can to
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review patches in a timely manner. Don't get discouraged if your
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patch is not accepted after first review. To keep the code quality
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high, we use the same review processes for internal code and for
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-external patches. It may take several cycles of review/updated patch
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+external patches. It may take some cycles of review/updated patch
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submissions before the code is finally accepted.
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-Once the process is almost completed, the developer will likely ask
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+Once the process is almost complete, the developer will likely ask
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you how you would like to be credited. The typical answers are by
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-first,last name, by nickname, by company or anonymously. Typically we
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-will add a note to ChangeLog. If the contributted feature is big or
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-critical for whatever reason, it may be also mentioned in release
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+first and last name, by nickname, by company name or anonymously. Typically we
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+will add a note to the \c ChangeLog and also set you as the author of the
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+commit applying the patch. If the contributted feature is big or
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+critical for whatever reason, it may also be mentioned in release
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notes.
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@section contributorGuideExtra Extra steps
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Mukund Sivaraman