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Stephan Aßmus 1f92a41ace Patch by Humdinger with the following commit message:
* Added explanation of icons to Bootloader.
* Applied css-fix by Braden Ewing to fix rendering under MS Internet Explorer.
  Added Braden to welcome.css authors.
* Added a css class pre.terminal to make Terminal output more visible plus a few more
  things. Added myself to welcome.css authors. :)
* Updated all Terminal output with the new pre-class tag.
* Flaunted our beautiful icons at the top of every preference/application/applet plus
  their contents page.
* Added icon PNGs in 16x16 32x32 and 64x64.
* Added quick info where to find a preference/application/applet and its settings at the
  top of every page.
* Added apps: ActivityMonitor, Magnify, StyledEdit, Terminal
* Added applet: Launchbox
* Added stubs to all missing prefs/apps/applets. Everyone's welcome to work on the
  contents (announce it on the mailing list, though!).
* Moved preference/application/applet into own folders.
* Updated contents page.
* Reformatted everything to be XHTML1.0-Strict conforming. Added XHTML DTDs to
  welcome/html-dtd/.
* Added copyright and author as comment to the header of every page. If someone else
  should be mentioned there, speak up.

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Whoot! What a titanian piece of work, Humdinger!


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* Humdinger <humdingerb@gmail.com>
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<div class="title">Reporting bugs</div>
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<p><a href="welcome.html">Welcome</a></p>
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<h2>Reporting bugs</h2>
<p>Since our developers are unable to test every hardware combination, nor every different way of interacting with the operating system, we are relying on you to give us some input on how things work at your end. Since this is a very early product, it is very likely that you will encounter bugs. We thank you for taking the time to report these.<br /><br />
Please follow these guidelines to create helpful bug reports:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Before reporting a bug please <a href="http://dev.haiku-os.org/query?status=new&amp;status=assigned&amp;status=reopened&amp;status=closed&amp;summary=~text+you+want+to+search+for&amp;order=priority">make sure</a> that it does not yet exist. You can also use the <a href="http://dev.haiku-os.org/search?q=&amp;noquickjump=1&amp;ticket=on">search</a> function for this.</p></li>
<li><p>After you have established this is a unique bug, make your information as accurate as possible:
<ul>
<li><p>Include basic information such as how you are testing Haiku (on real hardware, on VMWare, on QEMU, etc.).</p></li>
<li><p>Mention which revision from <acronym title="Subversion, the source code management system we use">SVN</acronym> you are running. You can find this information in '<i>About This System...</i>' from the Deskbar menu.</p></li>
<li><p>Describe the problem you are experiencing. Try to be as accurate as you can: describe the actual behavior, and the behavior you expected.</p></li>
<li><p>Describe what steps you need to perform in order to expose the bug. This will help developers reproduce the bug.</p></li>
<li><p>Attach as much information as you have. If it is a GUI bug, or a bug in one of the applications, try to make a screen shot (the <tt>PRINT</tt> key files a <acronym title="Portable Network Graphics image format">PNG</acronym> into <tt>/boot/home/</tt>).<br />
If it is a hardware problem, include a copy of the <tt>syslog</tt> file (just query for "<tt>syslog</tt>" to find it).</p></li>
<li><p>When an application crashed, you should invoke the debugger from the alert that pops up. Entering "<tt>bt</tt>" into the launched debug Terminal, you create a "backtrace" that you should copy into your bugreport.</p></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p>After the bug has been reported, a developer will look at your bug and try to classify it. Remember, we are all volunteers, and as such, sometimes a bug report might go unanswered for a while. Adding new information when it becomes available usually helps getting a bug picked up quicker, but do not try to 'bump' the bug up by adding non-descriptive comments.</p></li>
<li><p>Remember, reporting a bug is not something you spend a little time on and then you are done. If you reported a bug, then you are part of the Haiku development process. Developers might come up with questions while they are trying to fix your bug. Please stay around to answer these. Consider your participation 'done' when the bug is marked as 'fixed'. Together we can improve Haiku, bit by bit.</p></li>
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