HACKING: Add some simple notes on how the data directory is maintained

Original commit message from CVS:
* HACKING:
Add some simple notes on how the data directory is maintained

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8360b999..4da182cc 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-04-05  Jan Schmidt  <thaytan@mad.scientist.com>
+
+	* HACKING:
+	  Add some simple notes on how the data directory is maintained
+
 2006-04-04  Jan Schmidt  <thaytan@mad.scientist.com>
 
 	* src/htdocs/documentation/index.xml:
diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 63299017..5594bfd4 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -10,3 +10,16 @@ To hack on the GStreamer website, here's what to do:
 4) mkdir data
 4) bin/data-get (this is not needed if you just plan on updating the generated content)
 5) make
+
+MISCELLANEOUS NOTES:
+
+Things that are in the data subdirectory and synched with the contents
+on the website server by the data-get and data-put scripts. The
+things in there are updated by various scripts or by hand.
+
+The data/doc/gstreamer/head/ directory contains subdirs for the CVS version of
+the various documentation modules. These should be updated by running 
+'make upload' within the docs/ subdirectory of a CVS checkout of each module.
+
+The new-release script updates the data/doc/gstreamer/$VERSION/ copies
+automatically, so use that.