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One of the most useful tasks that we rely on the community for is testing and reporting of bugs. Since Xfce runs on various platform and in a lot of different setups, testing all changes in every possible situation is an impossible task. As such we kindly ask users to assist in testing, and reporting all bugs they may find, using our [[https:// | One of the most useful tasks that we rely on the community for is testing and reporting of bugs. Since Xfce runs on various platform and in a lot of different setups, testing all changes in every possible situation is an impossible task. As such we kindly ask users to assist in testing, and reporting all bugs they may find, using our [[https:// | ||
- | Once a bug has been found, the cause of the bug needs to be tracked down, and then (obviously) fixed. If you want to get involved in the actual development process of Xfce a great way to start is by solving bugs and attaching a patch file to the reported bug. ( "git format-patch" | ||
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- | === Detailed Sections === | ||
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- | How to compile Xfce from source to provide better debug information. | ||
===== Feature Requests ===== | ===== Feature Requests ===== | ||
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* [[https:// | * [[https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Fixing Bugs ===== | ||
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+ | Once a bug has been found, the cause of the bug needs to be tracked down, and then (obviously) fixed. If you want to get involved in the actual development process of Xfce a great way to start is by solving bugs and attaching a patch file to the reported bug. ( "git format-patch" | ||
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+ | Not familiar with git? [[contribute/ | ||
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+ | After you managed to download the source code, check [[: |