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NOTE: This node is in the early stages of development. The outline and contents will suffer significant changes as time goes by. Your input is welcome via: '/msg dvergin' or email 'dvergin at igc dot org'.

So Now You Are A PmDev...
      Read and Explore

Procedures
      Proposing Changes
      Submitting a Patch

Concepts
      Code Chunked into Nodes
      Code vs. HTML Nodes
      Containers

Standard Subroutines, Objects, and Vars
      $query object
      $USER scalar
      $AUTHOR scalar
      $NODE href
      $VARS href
      %HTMLVARS hash
      getVars()
      htmlcode()
      [% ... %],   [{ ... }],   and   [" ... "]

Tools and Resources
      The PmDev Nodelet
      The Everything Nodelet
      pmdevil's cave map by Aristotle


So Now You Are A PmDev...
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Read and Explore
If you have not yet done so, go to Nodelet Settings or your User Settings page and check the PmDev Nodelet item. You may also want to move it up to a convenient place near the top. This will expose two resources that can help you get an initial feel for how PmDev work gets done: the PmDev Nodelet, and the PmDev Wiki (link in the PmDev Nodelet).

Feel free to browse the various links in the PmDev Nodelet. As long as you don't hit "Submit" on any of the pages, you cannot harm anything. Take your time. Have fun.


Procedures
top

Proposing Changes
After a while, when you have gotten a sense of needs and priorities, you can

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Submitting a Patch
Go to the page where you will be making your changes. Click on "Source code" in the PmDev Nodelet, and enter your changes in the text box provided. Each time you update that source page, your changes will appear, color-coded in the code listing at the top.

As a side effect of entering your changes, the code node in question will appear on the Patch Lister (linked in the PmDev Nodelet).

Concepts
      Code Chunked into Nodes
Not all reachable via "Source code" link.
      Code vs. HTML Nodes
      Containers

Standard Subroutines, Objects, and Vars
      $query object
      $USER scalar
      $AUTHOR scalar
      $NODE href
      $VARS href
      %HTMLVARS hash
      getVars()
      htmlcode()
      [% ... %],   [{ ... }],   and   [" ... "]
(see 'sub parseCode')

Tools and Resources
      The PmDev Nodelet
      The Everything Nodelet
      pmdevil's cave map by Aristotle

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