Patch formalization

Hi,

I see a lot of patches going around on this group. I would like to propose not to accept patches unless the relevant points are updated in the documentation. Furthermore I suggest that this should be a distributed effort by each submitter. Too much I think has fallen on the shoulders of Alex trying to verify the code, to be able to maintain the documentation as well. Of course that would mean that documentation needs to get in the CVS if not already there. And definitely this applies only to new features/improvements, not to bug fixes.

This should facilitate also traffic in the group, inasmuch new users, like me, ask, over and over again, a lot of questions that are either outdated or nonexistent in the manual. A searchable mail list would be an improvement but could not substitute for a current manual.

Any comments?

BR,
Nikos