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I want to contribute my amf plugin to wireshark community. Please provide me with the details of the contribution process

asked 03 Apr '13, 23:24

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From the "Develop -> Get Involved" page on the Wireshark website:

If you have changes you want included in Wireshark, please attach it to a bug report and mark it for review.
The easiest way to create a patch is to use "svn diff", e.g. svn diff > my-new-protocol.patch

The Developer's Guide has complete documentation on preparing and uploading patches.

answered 04 Apr '13, 01:25

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Note that we prefer to have the plugin converted to an internal dissector. Moreover the patch should be generated against the trunk, not 1.8 or 1.6 branches.

(04 Apr '13, 05:53) Pascal Quantin

And fuzz test; that means collect capture files of your protocol in action and run the fuzz test tool on it. This to make sure to shake out the bugs.

(04 Apr '13, 07:07) Jaap ♦

@Pascal Quantin, @Jaap,

Both the above points are in the developers guide section on contributions.

(04 Apr '13, 07:30) grahamb ♦

@grahamb yes you are right: I just focused on chapter 3.9.5 and missed 3.9.4 :)

(04 Apr '13, 08:45) Pascal Quantin

@grahamb: yes, but please do fuzz test anyway ;)

(04 Apr '13, 09:29) Jaap ♦