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| ====== Bug Reporting and Fixing====== | ====== Bug Reporting and Fixing====== | ||
| - | 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://bugzilla.xfce.org|bug tracker]]. | + | 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://gitlab.xfce.org|issue tracker]]. |
| ===== Crashes ===== | ===== Crashes ===== | ||
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| ==== Search First ==== | ==== Search First ==== | ||
| - | Search the [[https://bugzilla.xfce.org|bug tracker]] and look if the issue is already known. Also look through the resolved bugs because the issue might be fixed already, but has not been released or applied downstream. Peeking the [[http://git.xfce.org/xfce|GIT repository]] might help for the latter. | + | Search the [[https://gitlab.xfce.org|issue tracker]] and look if the issue is already known. Also look through the resolved bugs because the issue might be fixed already, but has not been released or applied downstream. Peeking the [[https://gitlab.xfce.org|GIT repository]] might help for the latter. |
| ==== Report ==== | ==== Report ==== | ||
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| Not familiar with git? [[contribute/ | Not familiar with git? [[contribute/ | ||
| - | Read our [[contribute/ | + | To get started, best read our [[contribute/ |
| - | ===== Feature Requests ===== | + | |
| - | Although the philosophy of Xfce is to find the correct balance between features and lightweight, | ||
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| - | The right approach for larger changes is to discuss them on the mailing list, or on #xfce-dev (on freenode) first. You might think your idea is brilliant, but there is a high possibility that there are major downsides. | ||
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| - | Afterwards a bug can be opened in the bug tracker. Make sure the // | ||
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| - | Obviously it would benice if you could write a patch that implements the new feature. | ||