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+Hacking on the Eye of Mate
+===========================
+
+o spec file:
+ People from the mate packaging project are welcome to contribute fixes for
+ the spec file.
+
+o build fixes:
+ "build sheriff commits welcome". Please send a mail with your patch to either
+ the maintainers or [email protected]. If you don't know what "build sheriff"
+ means please read the mail by Michael Meeks:
+ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mate-hackers/2002-March/msg00051.html
+
+o In all other cases the following rules apply:
+
+The code for Eye of Mate was written with several goals in mind:
+
+ - maintainable,
+ - extensible,
+ - correct,
+ - documented.
+
+If you want to work on EOM as well, please read the MATE Programming
+Guidelines first, understand their purpose, and keep them in mind when
+writing code for EOM.
+
+If you have a patch you would like to put into EOM, please file a bug
+using http://bugzilla.gnome.org for the product EOM and attach the
+patch to it. This way your submisson won't get lost.
+