Updated policy on contributed plugins

[nagiosplug.git] / doc / developer-guidelines.sgml

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index ea4508b60f9a5955ef3614ff31c1f975d83140ca..15920afe07c38794e25dabce12ef68e58a6f7887 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -809,8 +809,22 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
        Credit will always be given for any patches through a THANKS file in the distribution.</para>
        </section>
 
-       <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
 
+       <section id="Contributedplugins"><title>Contributed plugins</title>
+       <para>Plugins that have been contributed to the project and 
+       distributed with the Nagios Plugin files are held in the contrib/ directory and are not installed
+       by default. These plugins are not officially supported by the team. 
+       The current policy is that these plugins should be owned and maintained by the original 
+       contributor, preferably hosted on <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
+       </para>
+       <para>If patches or bugs are raised to an contributed plugin, we will start communications with the
+       original contributor, but seek to remove the plugin from our distribution.
+       </para>
+       <para>The aim is to distribute only code that the Nagios Plugin team are responsible for.
+       </para>
+       </section>
+
+       <section id="Newplugins"><title>New plugins</title>
        <para>If you would like others to use your plugins, please add it to
        the official 3rd party plugin repository, 
        <ulink url="http://www.nagiosexchange.org">NagiosExchange</ulink>.
@@ -823,7 +837,8 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
 
       <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
-         <para>Include copyright and license information in all files</para>
+         <para>Include copyright and license information in all files. Copyright must be solely
+               granted to the Nagios Plugin Development Team</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>The standard command options are supported (--help, --version,