Preliminary steps
- Describe the bug.
- Find a simple way to reproduce it (test case).
- Search bugzilla (Gnome example,
Mozilla example) for an existing
bug.
- May have been fixed already.
- May have a patch attached.
- May have helpful hints, or a partial patch.
- May have comments warning you that it's too hard.
- Download the latest source. It might already be
fixed!
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