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19.2.1. Bug reports and general commentary

An idea or suggestion of general technical interest should be mailed to the FreeBSD technical discussions mailing list <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>. Likewise, people with an interest in such things (and a tolerance for a high volume of mail!) may subscribe to the hackers mailing list by sending mail to <majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG>. See mailing lists for more information about this and other mailing lists.

If you find a bug or are submitting a specific change, please report it using the send-pr(1) program or its WEB-based equivalent. Try to fill-in each field of the bug report. Unless they exceed 65KB, include any patches directly in the report. Consider compressing them and using uuencode(1) if they exceed 20KB. Upload very large submissions to ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/.

After filing a report, you should receive confirmation along with a tracking number. Keep this tracking number so that you can update us with details about the problem by sending mail to bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG. Use the number as the message subject, e.g. "Re: kern/3377". Additional information for any bug report should be submitted this way.

If you do not receive confirmation in a timely fashion (3 days to a week, depending on your email connection) or are, for some reason, unable to use the send-pr(1) command, then you may ask someone to file it for you by sending mail to the FreeBSD problem reports mailing list <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>.


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