[arch-general] Need a little help getting started with contributing

[Göran Gustafsson]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 21:14, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Hi Göran,
>
> 2012/1/4 Göran Gustafsson <gustafsson.g at gmail.com>:
>> The packages i've edited is initscripts, mkinitcpio and filesystem. When
>> it comes to initscripts and mkinitcpio i've just cloned the git
>> repositories but i'm not sure how i should send the commits upstream.
>> git push doesn't work since i don't have the right permissions. I've
>> only used github to send pull request before so i'm not that confident
>> in git yet. Can i do the same thing with just the git command?
>
> I suggest using Florian's script for initscripts+mkinitcpio.
>
>> Also, does the filesystem package have a git repository i can use too?
>
> For the filesystem package you could either open a bug/feature request
> (and assign it to me), or send an email/diff to arch-projects.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom

Thanks! I'm gonna give the script a try. The filesystem thing is such
a little thing that i could just as well tell you here. Why don't we
remove hostname from /etc/issue? agetty already tells us the hostname
which makes it pointless.