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Mailing lists and bug reportsMailing lists and bug reports — Getting help with CTK+ |
If you encounter a bug, misfeature, or missing feature in CTK+, please file a bug report on https://bugzilla.gnome.org. We'd also appreciate reports of incomplete or misleading information in the CTK+ documentation; file those against the "docs" component of the "ctk+" product in Bugzilla.
Don't hesitate to file a bug report, even if you think we may know about it already, or aren't sure of the details. Just give us as much information as you have, and if it's already fixed or has already been discussed, we'll add a note to that effect in the report.
The bug tracker should definitely be used for feature requests, it's not only for bugs. We track all CTK+ development in Bugzilla, so it's the way to be sure the CTK+ developers won't forget about an issue.
If you develop a bugfix or enhancement for CTK+, please file that in
Bugzilla as well. Bugzilla allows you to attach files; please attach a
patch generated by the diff utility, using the
-u option to make the patch more readable. All patches
must be offered under the terms of the GNU LGPL license, so be sure you
are authorized to give us the patch under those terms.
If you want to discuss your patch before or after developing it, mail ctk-devel-list@gnome.org. But be sure to file the Bugzilla report as well; if the patch is only on the list and not in Bugzilla, it's likely to slip through the cracks.
There are several mailing lists dedicated to CTK+ and related libraries. Discussion of GLib, Pango, and ATK in addition to CTK+ proper is welcome on these lists. You can subscribe or view the archives of these lists on http://mail.gnome.org. If you aren't subscribed to the list, any message you post to the list will be held for manual moderation, which might take some days to happen.
ctk-list covers general CTK+ topics; questions about using CTK+ in programs, CTK+ from a user standpoint, announcements of CTK+-related projects such as themes or CTK+ modules would all be on-topic. The bulk of the traffic consists of CTK+ programming questions. |
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ctk-app-devel-list covers writing applications in CTK+. It's narrower in scope than ctk-list, but the two lists overlap quite a bit. ctk-app-devel-list is a good place to ask questions about CTK+ programming. |
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ctk-devel-list is for discussion of work on CTK+ itself, it is not for asking questions about how to use CTK+ in applications. ctk-devel-list is appropriate for discussion of patches, bugs, proposed features, and so on. |
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ctk-i18n-list is for discussion of internationalization in CTK+; Pango is the main focus of the list. Questions about the details of using Pango, and discussion of proposed Pango patches or features, are all on topic. |
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gtk-doc-list is for discussion of the gtk-doc documentation system (used to document CTK+), and for work on the CTK+ documentation. |