Submitting Bug Reports

A

Alex DeCaria

I have an app that consistently runs for a while and then crashes with a
segmentation error. The error message says "Bug reports are welcome"
and gives an http: address of www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html. This
page redirects me to redmine/ruby-lang.org. I registered as a user, but
can't find any directions for actually submitting a bug report.

Two questions:

1) Is it worth anyone's time for me to submit a bug report for a
segmentation error?

2) If so, how do I submit such a report, and what information is most
useful. I have screen captures of the error messages received.

Thanks,

--Alex
 
C

Caleb Clausen

I have an app that consistently runs for a while and then crashes with a
segmentation error. The error message says "Bug reports are welcome"
and gives an http: address of www.ruby-lang.org/bugreport.html. This
page redirects me to redmine/ruby-lang.org. I registered as a user, but
can't find any directions for actually submitting a bug report.

Two questions:

1) Is it worth anyone's time for me to submit a bug report for a
segmentation error?

Yes, these are serious bugs.
2) If so, how do I submit such a report, and what information is most
useful. I have screen captures of the error messages received.

From the redmine home page, select the version of ruby you are using
(under 'Popular Products'). Then, click on the 'New Issue' tab (5th
from the left).

Good practice is to include the complete output of the crashing
program (as text, not an image file). It will also help a lot if you
can include a short but complete example program which causes the
crash (and any input that program might need). This is so the ruby
maintainers can reproduce the problem you've seen on their own
machines.

If you are using any extensions, it's likely that one of them is the
culprit. Try to determine if that's the case and report the bug to the
appropriate extension author if so.

If you cannot boil your problem down into a short example program, be
sure to mention any extensions or libraries you are using. Your
operating system and its version may also be relevant.

You might want to look through existing bug reports and try to see if
your problem has been reported already. If so, don't start a new
report; just add a comment to the end of the existing one.

Most programmers are interested in working on the latest version of
their program, not some older version. Therefore, your bug is more
likely to get attention if you can reproduce it with a fairly recent
version of ruby. (That said, segfaults in even old versions like 1.8.6
should get fixed too.) Keep in mind that even if you are using, say
1.8.6, there may have been a newer release of 1.8.6 than what you're
using which fixes the bug.
 

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