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On 20/05/16 01:44, KOBAYASHI Shinji wrote:
> I found a bug and I am willing to submit a patch (under
> winsup/cygwin). But before doing that, I was asked from my employer to
> clarify some points.https://cygwin.com/contrib.html  says that the
> assignment form is required "if your change is going to be a
> significant one in terms of the size of your code changes". So the
> questions are:
>
> 1. Who is going to determine if the change is "a significant one"?
> 2. In fact, my patch is just two lines of modifications, so I believe
>     that it is not "a significant one". Is it okay to send such a small
>     patch without the assignment form?


For Cygwin, the boundary between trivial and substantial is usually 
taken as ten lines. A two-line patch would probably be accepted without 
an assignment form.

Dave.


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