Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] contribute to ethereal?

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From: "Mattia Cazzola" <mattiac@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:02:40 +0200
Hi folks!
I have the idea of making the packet byte view more friendly than they are now.
Now things are presented like this:

0000  45 00 00 2b 07 9e 40 00 40 06 89 13 d4 07 41 0c  E..+..@.@.....A.

this makes difficult to find the hex code of the byte corresponding to the character displayed on the right. A slightly better thing would be to insert a space between the 8th and 9th byte in both views (left and right).

0000  45 00 00 2b 07 9e 40 00  40 06 89 13 d4 07 41 0c  E..+..@. @.....A.

And also, it would be nice that clicking on the visual character displayed on the right, the corresponding hex code on the left is selected too, like most hex editors do.

Instead of passively tell you what I would like, I'd rather contribute to the code. I have written some modification to the code, but I don't now what to do with it. Shall I post it here?
I am new to contributing to write code for an open source app, so I don't know much about how people work.
Does the anonymous access of CVS mean that anyone can contribute, or is it a read only access?
Thank you.

Mattia Cazzola