Commit e640872e authored by Thomas De Schampheleire's avatar Thomas De Schampheleire Committed by Thomas Petazzoni
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manual: contributing: add section on analyzing bug reports 



This patch adds a small section to the manual promoting the reproduction,
analysis and fixing of bug reports.

Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas De Schampheleire <thomas.de.schampheleire@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatar"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
parent 37b22be9

docs/manual/contribute.txt

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@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ source code tarball. Git is the easiest way to develop from and directly 
send your patches to the mailing list. Refer to xref:getting-buildroot[]

for more information on obtaining a Buildroot git tree.



Reproducing, analyzing and fixing bugs

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A first way of contributing is to have a look at the open bug reports in

the https://bugs.busybox.net/buglist.cgi?product=buildroot[Buildroot bug

tracker]. As we strive to keep the bug count as small as possible, all

help in reproducing, analyzing and fixing reported bugs is more than

welcome. Don't hesitate to add a comment to bug reports reporting your

findings, even if you don't yet see the full picture.



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