elgaton wrote in Sun Mar 08, 2015 8:49 am:This wasn't probably answered because we were in the middle of a migration (fgdata was finally cleaned and migrated to SourceForge).
- Check out the new fgdata from https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fgdata/ (you need to do a fresh clone, an existing one won't work).
- Add the ratings to the aircraft .xml files.
- Submit a merge request on SourceForge.
The interesting twist is that you dont Rank aircrafts in FGDATA anymore
This are changes that belong to Aircraft, which are no longer hosted in FGDATA.
These changes have to occur in the aircrafts repository.
So as a matter of fact, this whole thing could try to make its way to "Official" Aircraft repository as a ticket, here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/tickets/ , or ask someone with SVN repo write authority to author this changes for you,
Or, you could be given write priviledges to the write these to the SVN repo yourself.
A Non-official version of the aircrafts also exist in git at FGMEMBERS:
https://github.com/FGMEMBERSYou can fork all of these FIVE aircraft, makes the changes yourself and then submit a pull request in github to get these changes authored by yourself, more expeditely.
The unfortunate part of it is that, while I am trying hard to lobby the Git FGMEMBERS as a feasible official alternative to the SVN method, some core developers are very resilient to allow that too happen, and consider that authoring is easier in a centralized SVN repository. With that I mean, you can use Github FGMEMBERS area to easily submit this changes request, but they will be written in a distribution of the flightgear aircraft that is not the "official" one.
If you feel interested in making these rate changes in FGMEMBERs aircraft, but you are unsure of HOWTO do it yourself, let me know and I can either guide you thru, or if its too hard, I can go ahead and make these patches for you.
Sincerely
IHCOL
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