Talk about Git instead of CVS

Update the Developer Guidelines to reflect the fact that our development
is done using Git instead of CVS these days (as noted by Chris Pepper on
the "nagiosplug-devel" list).

While at it, apply another few minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Holger Weiss <holger@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
index 132fada5c518a87647c19a399e77a89c4baed975..583f725e4ef256c158341cb95ba0168c8ba330e1 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
+++ b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
       </author>
     </authorgroup>
 
-    <pubdate>2006</pubdate>
+    <pubdate>2009</pubdate>
     <title>Nagios plug-in development guidelines</title>
        
     <revhistory>
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     </revhistory>
 
        <copyright>
-               <year>2000 - 2006</year> 
+               <year>2000 - 2009</year>
                <holder>Nagios Plugins Development Team</holder>
        </copyright>
 
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     the plug-in developers and encourage the standarization of the
     different kind of plug-ins: C, shell, perl, python, etc.</para>
 
-        <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2006
+        <para>Nagios Plug-in Development Guidelines Copyright (C) 2000-2009
         (Nagios Plugins Team)</para>
 
         <para>Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim
@@ -50,18 +50,18 @@
        <para>
        Nagios plugins are developed to the GNU standard, so any OS which is supported by GNU
        should run the plugins. While the requirements for compiling the Nagios plugins release 
-       is very small, to develop from CVS needs additional software to be installed. These are the 
-       minimum levels of software required:
+       are very basic, developing from the Git repository requires additional software to be
+       installed. These are the minimum levels of software required:
 
        <literallayout>
-       gnu make 3.79
-       automake 1.9.2
-       autoconf 2.59
-       gnu m4 1.4.2
-       gnu libtool 1.5
+       GNU make 3.79
+       GNU automake 1.9.2
+       GNU autoconf 2.59
+       GNU m4 1.4.2
+       GNU libtool 1.5
        </literallayout>
 
-       To compile from CVS, after you have checked out the code, run:
+       To compile from Git, after you have cloned the repository, run:
        <literallayout>
        tools/setup
        ./configure
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ setup the tests. Run "make test" to run all the tests.
 update the THANKS.in file.</para>
         <para>If you have a change that is useful for noting in the next release, please
        update the NEWS file.</para>
-       <para>All CVS commit comments will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
+       <para>All commit comments will be written to a ChangeLog at release time.
        </para>
        </section>
 
@@ -784,7 +784,7 @@ update the THANKS.in file.</para>
        <section id="Patches"><title>Patches</title>
        <para>If you have a bug patch, please supply a unified or context diff against the
        version you are using. For new features, please supply a diff against
-       the CVS HEAD version.</para>
+       the Git "master" branch.</para>
 
        <para>Patches should be submitted via 
        <ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=29880&amp;atid=397599">SourceForge's