TIP: Be a good citizen in OOo project
This diary entry summarizes several common practices that I'm trying to
follow. Do you have more? Please tell me so I can extend this and help
others.
Mail is the primary communication medium of the project. Several mail outages in the past
have shown us that e-mail (along with IRC) is crucial for our project. If you have a problem with
OpenOffice.org (compilation failure, user problem, ...) try to search mail archives first. It is
very common to find a solution just after you sent your e-mail. While using mail, please follow
Netiquette and also the
Mailing list guidelines of our project. It
is still very common to reply with full quotation of the previous mail etc.
IssueZilla is THE bugtracking system we use. If you found an issue in OOo, please file it in
IZ if you can't find it there. You'll help others who will have the same problem in the future. They
can find it. You can help yourself because you'll be notified via mail about the solution and its
status.
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