Netfilter Extensions HOWTO: Contributing

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## 9. Contributing

## 9.1 Contributing a new extension

Netfilter core-team always welcome new extensions/bug-fixes. In this section we will not focus on how to package a new extension to ease its inclusion into patch-o-matic yet. But this might come in a future version of this HOWTO.

First of all, you should be familiar with the Netfilter Hacking HOWTO.

Rusty has already written a guideline on how to make new patches for netfilter, it's in :

> `

>     /path/to/netfiltercvs/netfilter/patch-o-matic/NEWPATCHES

> `

Or read the latest version online at : NEWPATCHES.

Finally, it's a good idea to subscribe to netfilter-devel mailing list. More info on how to subscribe can be found on the netfilter homepage.

## 9.2 Contributing to this HOWTO

You are mostly welcome to update this HOWTO. To do so, the preferred way is to send a patch of the SGML master of this document to the netfilter-devel mailing list.

Thanks for your help! Thanks to the developers who contributed the netfilter-extensions-HOWTO parts related to their patches.

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