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authorThéo Zimmermann2020-01-31 23:14:49 +0100
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Clarify expectations for overlays in contributing guide and CI doc.
Contributors are *not* required to prepare all the patches by themselves. They can request help from project authors, who should be ready to take part in this. Also, finish replacing "development" by the more appropriate word "project".
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### Breaking changes
When your PR breaks an external project we test in our CI, you must
-prepare a patch (or ask someone to prepare a patch) to fix the
-project. There is experimental support for an improved workflow, see
-[the next section](#experimental-automatic-overlay-creation-and-building), below
+prepare a patch (or ask someone —possibly the project author— to
+prepare a patch) to fix the project. There is experimental support for
+an improved workflow, see [the next
+section](#experimental-automatic-overlay-creation-and-building), below
are the steps to manually prepare a patch:
1. Fork the external project, create a new branch, push a commit adapting