If you do not have one already, create a gmail account and send
the email address to the @ref{Meisters, Bug Meister}.
+@item
+Subscribe your gmail account to @code{bug-lilypond}.
+
@item
Configure your google code account:
@enumerate
@item
-Log in to:
+Sign in to google code by clicking in the top-right corner of:
@example
-@uref{http://code.google.com}
+@uref{http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list}
@end example
@item
@item
If the email is a question about how to use LilyPond, reply with
-this reponse:
+this response:
@example
For questions about how to use LilyPond, please read our
system (if this is a suspected cause of the problem)? In short,
if you cannot understand what the problem is, ask the user to
explain more. It is the user's responsibility to explain the
-problem, not your reponsibility to understand it.
+problem, not your responsibility to understand it.
@item
If the behavior is expected, the user should be told to read the
@uref{http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/list?can=7}
@end example
+A few (approximately 10%) of these fixed issues relate to the
+build system or fundamental architecture changes; there is no way
+for you to verify these. Leave those issues alone; somebody else
+will handle them.
+
@end itemize
issue should also have an estimated time in a comment.
@item
-Maintainability: hinders developent of LilyPond. For example,
+Maintainability: hinders development of LilyPond. For example,
improvements to the build system, or @qq{helper} python scripts.
@item
@ref{Issue classification}. In particular, the item should have
@code{Status}, @code{Type-}, and @code{Priority-} labels.
+Include output with the first applicable method:
+
+@itemize
+
+@item
+If the issue has a notation example which fits in one system,
+generate a small @file{bug@/.preview@/.png} file with:
+
+@example
+lilypond -dpreview bug.ly
+@end example
+
+@item
+If the issue has an example which requires more than one system
+(i.e. a spacing bug), generate a @file{bug@/.png} file with:
+
+@example
+lilypond --png bug.ly
+@end example
+
+@item
+If the issue requires multi-page output, then generate a
+@file{bug@/.pdf} file with the normal:
+
+@example
+lilypond --png bug.ly
+@end example
+
+@end itemize
+
@item
After adding the issue, please send a response email to the same
group(s) that the initial patch was sent to. If the initial email