Default bug reporting procedure

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Re: Default bug reporting procedure by davis (Vicar) on Apr 14, 2004 at 12:10 UTC
If the module's POD says "Please contact me in the event of finding a bug", then I'd do that. If it doesn't, there's always the option of the CPAN bug tracker davis It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.	[reply]
Re: Default bug reporting procedure by matija (Priest) on Apr 14, 2004 at 12:16 UTC
Well the author(s) are the people in the best position to fix the bug, aren't they? Having said that, as module author I prefer those bug reports that come with a patch to fix the bug... ;-) Although there is also rt.cpan.org, I still prefer direct mail to me.	[reply]
Re: Re: Default bug reporting procedure by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 14, 2004 at 13:03 UTC
And if not a patch, at least a (small as possible) test case which exercises the bug (along with what you expected it to do and the output of perl -V).	[reply]