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  24. <h1>What to do about Boost bugs</h1>
  25. <ol>
  26. <li>Make sure the bug isn't already fixed in the latest sources. The most
  27. recent version of everything on the Boost web site is available from
  28. <a href="http://www.boost.org/more/download.html#CVS">boost public CVS
  29. repository</a>.<br>
  30. &nbsp;</li>
  31. <li>If you are a Boost user, or a Boost developer that doesn't have a CVS
  32. write access: <br>
  33. &nbsp;<ol>
  34. <li>Submit a bug report to either
  35. <a href="http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#users">boost-users list</a>,
  36. <a href="http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#main">boost mailing
  37. list</a>, or our <a href="http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=7586">bug
  38. tracking facility</a> at SourceForge; submitting it to either of the mailing
  39. lists is a preferred way - because many of the Boost developers read the
  40. lists on a daily basis, this way you are likely to get a quicker response,
  41. and the discussions that often arise there from (possible) bug reports are
  42. quite interesting and educational as well;<br>
  43. &nbsp;</li>
  44. <li>If you have a proposed patch to the code, post it along with your bug
  45. report, preferably in the <em>context diffs</em> format (<code>diff -c</code>);
  46. if you can, send a patch relative to the current CVS state. <br>
  47. &nbsp;</li>
  48. </ol>
  49. </li>
  50. <li>If you are a Boost developer, and you have a CVS write access: <br>
  51. &nbsp;<ol>
  52. <li>If bug is trivial (e.g. misspelled name, missed <code>typename</code>,
  53. etc.), and you are willing to make a fix, either make your changes locally
  54. and contact the library author(s)/maintainer(s) about it, or go ahead and
  55. check the fix into CVS, but post a notification about it to the
  56. <a href="http://www.boost.org/more/mailing_lists.htm#main">boost mailing
  57. list</a> (if the author is not very active on the list, you also might want
  58. to consider <code>cc</code>'ing him as well); <br>
  59. &nbsp;</li>
  60. <li>If bug is non-trivial, or/and you don't have time/resources to fix it,
  61. submit a bug report (see p. 2 above); chances are that the maintainer(s)
  62. will respond promptly and take care of the problem; <br>
  63. &nbsp;</li>
  64. <li>Otherwise create a temporary branch in CVS, make your changes there, and
  65. ask the library author(s)/maintainer(s) to review them; if they are ok with
  66. the new code, either you or they can integrate the fixes into the main
  67. trunk. </li>
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  72. <p>Contributed by <a href="../people/aleksey_gurtovoy.htm">Aleksey Gurtovoy</a></p>
  73. <p>Revised <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->18 January, 2002<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" i-checksum="38453" endspan -->
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