>> You would patch your local admin/ directory, build, test,
>> etc., then once it works generate a patch, apply the patch to the
>> common/admin/ directory, and commit.
>>
>> Make sense?
>
> I think. Maybe.
>
> When I build locally, does each module pull from my local common
> admin/cmake? I remain unclear about that.

No.  You would need to issue a 'git submodule update' command inside a top
level module (tdelibs, tdebase, etc.) in order to update any submodules
(admin/, cmake/, libltdl/, etc.) from the TDE server.

> Do I have permissions to push to the common admin/cmake? I tried pushing
> some nominal typo corrections for qt3 and tqt3 and was rejected.

You should--make sure that you are committing/pushing from within either
admin/ or cmake/, not common/.

Tim