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Hi Zak,
thanks for the mail, I was thinking about writing such a mail
myself but was to tired I guess.
Yep, the CVS note to the latest ext/domxml changes state it
clearly:
# Testers/patches/contribs welcome.
The actual changelog can be found here [1].
Also for anyone out there who has no idea about CVS: It won't
help me anything filing bug reports against any released
source code of PHP out there. Please use the HEAD branch when
filing bug reports. See CVS instructions at
http://www.php.net/anoncvs.php how to achive this.
Although I don't expect a rush on this ;) I want to give out
some simple rules for anyone helping us getting domxml more
stable:
.) If you have a reproduceable crash with small
self-containing script with no other external
dependencies than loading a file ->
don't forget to use the bug reporting system!
Do not mail me privately about it!
No, I'm not lazy or whatever but I wan't to broaden
the audience reading about the bugs (two eyes see less
than more eyes) and it also helps me keeping track of
all the problems.
.) If you have a reproduceable crash but can't create a
small self-containing script, there are three options:
1) still try to create one (prefered)
2) Provide backtrace in your bug report
('bt full' command, not normal bt)
3) give me access to your devel system
(no, no joke. This has worked in the past, it can
in the future) But no promises.
.) Before reporting, try creating a testcase which is
suiteable to run on the command line of PHP (read:
with the CGI version).
Apache is nice but it adds some extra work when
handling the bugs I prefer the reproduceable scripts
which use the CGI version for testing and don't
contain any fancy <br /> tags but newlines and such
instead. The find bug/fix it cycle is much faster
without apache.
Again, I'm not lazy, but I'm also using MSVC for
debugging and although I'm not a windows fan I've seen
myself being faster chasing down bugs with it then
with gdb (doh!).
.) Patches can go directly to me; but please also tell me
why and what and give a testing script and not only
send a diff to me.
Of cousre, anyone with the proper karma is encouraged
to fix it himself (you might want to check back if I'm
not currently working on it).
.) NEW FEATURES
No, I do NOT plan to add now featuers. I'm just
interesting in making the current version more stable
but time doesn't permit to expand this scope.
But you're still encouraged to use the bug report
system to put your feature requests there or do it
yourself.
What I wrote done seems normal to me and I do not explicetely
prefer this for domxml but anything else too. Saves mit quite
lot of time.
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:19:47PM -0700, Zak Greant wrote :
> Marcus Fischer has made [...]
Yo, and its still MarKKKKKKKus ;-)
- Markus
[1] http://cvs.php.net/cvs.php/php4/ext/domxml/php_domxml.c
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