Contribution

Submitting contributions

The syslog-ng application is an open source project that relies heavily on community contributions. Contribution is not necessarily program code: documentation, configuration examples, usage scenarios, benchmarking and other test results are also very useful. The following gives you a summary on how to submit contributions to the syslog-ng maintainers, in order to get it integrated into syslog-ng as soon as possible.

Code contributions

If you have created a patch, please make sure that:

• you have signed the syslog-ng Contributor License Agreement;
• your patch is based on the contents of the syslog-ng GIT repository, or at least on the latest released version (for details on accessing the GIT repository, see the GIT instructions);
• the patch adheres to the syslog-ng coding conventions (no formal document describing this has been posted yet, but if you follow the naming scheme and indentation of the existing code base, then it is probably fine);
• you have attached a summary of the changes in GNU ChangeLog format.

Documentation contributions

The official documentation of syslog-ng includes of the following items:

• The syslog-ng Administrator Guide
• The manual pages of syslog-ng
• The syslog-ng Knowledge Base articles on the BalaBit website

These documents are maintained internally by the BalaBit Documentation Team. If you have any suggestions, clarifications, or any other kind of documentation related comments, please write a mail to documentation@balabit.com