1.6 How to get a stack trace
1.7 Bugs in libcurl bindings
+ 2. Bug fixing procedure
+ 2.1 What happens on first filing
+ 2.2 First response
+ 2.3 Not reproducible
+ 2.4 Unresponsive
+ 2.5 Lack of time/interest
+ 2.6 KNOWN_BUGS
+ 2.7 TODO
+ 2.8 Closing off stalled bugs
+
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1.1 There are still bugs
1.4 libcurl problems
- First, post all libcurl problems on the curl-library mailing list.
-
When you've written your own application with libcurl to perform transfers,
it is even more important to be specific and detailed when reporting bugs.
If you suspect that the problem exists in the underlying libcurl, then
please convert your program over to plain C and follow the steps outlined
above.
+
+2. Bug fixing procedure
+
+2.1 What happens on first filing
+
+ When a new issue is posted in the issue tracker or on the mailing list, the
+ team of developers first need to see the report. Maybe they took the day
+ off, maybe they're off in the woods hunting. Have patience. Allow at least a
+ few days before expecting someone to have responded.
+
+ In the issue tracker you can expect that some labels will be set on the
+ issue to help categorize it.
+
+2.2 First response
+
+ If your issue/bug report wasn't perfect at once (and few are), chances are
+ that someone will ask follow-up questions. Which version did you use? Which
+ options did you use? How often does the problem occur? How can we reproduce
+ this problem? Which protocols does it involve? Or perhaps much more specific
+ and deep diving questions. It all depends on your specific issue.
+
+ You should then respond to these follow-up questions and provide more info
+ about the problem, so that we can help you figure it out. Or maybe you can
+ help us figure it out. An active back-and-forth communication is important
+ and the key for finding a cure and landing a fix.
+
+2.3 Not reproducible
+
+ For problems that we can't reproduce and can't understand even after having
+ gotten all the info we need and having studied the source code over again,
+ are really hard to solve so then we may require further work from you who
+ actually see or experience the problem.
+
+2.4 Unresponsive
+
+ If the problem haven't been understood or reproduced, and there's nobody
+ responding to follow-up questions or questions asking for clarifications or
+ for discussing possible ways to move forward with the task, we take that as
+ a strong suggestion that the bug is not important.
+
+ Unimportant issues will be closed as inactive sooner or later as they can't
+ be fixed. The inactivity period (waiting for responses) should not be
+ shorter than two weeks but may extend months.
+
+2.5 Lack of time/interest
+
+ Bugs that are filed and are understood can unfortunately end up in the
+ "nobody cares enough about it to work on it" category. Such bugs are
+ perfectly valid problems that *should* get fixed but apparently aren't. We
+ try to mark such bugs as "KNOWN_BUGS material" after a time of inactivity
+ and if no activity is noticed after yet some time those bugs are added to
+ KNOWN_BUGS and are closed in the issue tracker.
+
+2.6 KNOWN_BUGS
+
+ This is a list of known bugs. Bugs we know exist and that have been pointed
+ out but that haven't yet been fixed. The reasons for why they haven't been
+ fixed can involve anything really, but the primary reason is that nobody has
+ considered these problems to be important enough to spend the necesary time
+ and effort to have them fixed.
+
+ The KNOWN_BUGS are always up for grabs and we will always love the ones who
+ bring one of them back to live and offers solutions to them.
+
+ The KNOWN_BUGS document has a sibling document known as TODO.
+
+2.7 TODO
+
+ Issues that are filed or reported that aren't really bugs but more missing
+ features or ideas for future improvements and so on are marked as
+ 'enhancement' or 'feature-request' and will be added to the TODO document
+ instead and the issue is closed. We don't keep TODO items in the issue
+ tracker.
+
+ The TODO document is full of ideas and suggestions of what we can add or fix
+ one day. You're always encouraged and free to grab one of those items and
+ take up a discussion with the curl development team on how that could be
+ implemented or provided in the project so that you can work on ticking it
+ odd that document.
+
+ If the issue is rather a bug and not a missing feature or functionality, it
+ is listed in KNOWN_BUGS instead.
+
+2.8 Closing off stalled bugs
+
+ The issue and pull request trackers on https://github.com/curl/curl will
+ only hold "active" entries (using a non-precise defintion of what active
+ actually is, but they're at least not completely dead). Those that are
+ abandonded or in other ways dormant will be closed and sometimes added to
+ TODO and KNOWN_BUGS instead.
+
+ This way, we only have "active" issues open on github. Irrelevant issues and
+ pull requests will not distract developes or casual visitors.
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