Part of using Free Software is participating in the community that produces it. Reporting the bugs you observe in the normal course of using software is an easy and effective way to help improve the software you use every day.
Some of the bugs I've reported and minor enhancements I've submitted over the years:
| Date | Project | Link | Description | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Sep | 2009 | evince | bug 595372 | Evince crashes when /tmp/ is full |
| 6 | Jul | 2009 | libxml2 | bug 587867 | Regression: xmllint --html --xmlout emits HTML, not XML |
| 25 | Jun | 2009 | Portage | bug 275441 | * New ebuild: chibi-scheme |
| 25 | Jun | 2009 | mediawiki | bug 19390 | * Fix infinite chain of &printable=yes&printable=yes... |
| 27 | Jun | 2008 | buildconf | bug 2004318 | * Fix some spelling/grammar errors in autogen.sh |
| 14 | Apr | 2008 | atanks | mail archive | * Accelerated-AI shouldn't kick in until after violent deaths |
| 4 | Apr | 2008 | poppler | bug 51538 | Crash ("Bogus memory allocation size") on some documents |
| 16 | Mar | 2008 | evince | bug 522819 | A bug-buddy crash auto-submit. |
| 11 | Mar | 2008 | dspam | mail archive | * Lift quarantine processing limit |
| 15 | Feb | 2008 | gnuplot | mail archive | Fix bad interaction between *BSD, gnuplot, and bash 3.2's <() |
| 20 | Jan | 2008 | dspam | patch | * Add shift-click multiple row selection to quarantine and history |
| 2 | Dec | 2007 | screenshot | Pointed out fixed-height px units in header CSS | |
| 3 | Nov | 2007 | OSXvnc | bug 1825242 | * Refuse to start with no authentication |
| 15 | Oct | 2007 | OpenSSH | bug 1375 | * Handle leak in sftp-client |
| 22 | Sep | 2007 | Portage | bug 193383 | * SSL_BITS → SSL_DAYS in ssl-cert.eclass |
| 3 | Jun | 2007 | RT | mail archive | * Add a queue-level default ticket owner |
| 3 | Mar | 2007 | Dovecot | mail archive | mbox_min_index_size > 0 → panic |
| 25 | Feb | 2007 | Rubik's tut | mail archive | Images for unknown actions default to incorrect action |
| 26 | Dec | 2006 | SANE | report | Lexmark driver almost supports new scanner: x1240 |
| 26 | Dec | 2006 | Jestr | bug 1622639 | Cycle detection doesn't catch short cycles |
| 11 | Mar | 2006 | PHP | bug 33213 | Website documentation search doesn't handle symbols correctly |
| 7 | Mar | 2006 | XML Schema | mail archive | Typo in the XML Schema documentation |
| 10 | Feb | 2006 | SSHFS | mail archive | attempts to clobber with mv fail |
| 28 | Dec | 2005 | Portage | bug 117037 | * New ebuild: app-text/jbofihe |
| 11 | Dec | 2005 | Audacity | mail archive | * NoiseRemoval slider position is lost |
| 8 | Dec | 2005 | Portage | bug 114948 | * Repoman should validate usage of operators in metadata strings |
| 7 | Dec | 2005 | Portage | bug 114734 | Stale licenses |
| 13 | Nov | 2005 | dm-crypt | mail archive | * cryptsetup needs a --read-only flag for reading CDs |
| 6 | Jul | 2005 | GnuPG | mail archive | * noecho should be turned on before emitting the password prompt |
| 30 | May | 2005 | Wine | bug 3018 | * Window gravity regression in x11drv |
| 2 | Mar | 2005 | KOrganizer | bug 100691 | Crash when you click on dialog boxes in the 'wrong' order |
| 10 | Jan | 2005 | Portage | bug 77470 | * New ebuild: games-board/gamazons |
| 5 | Jan | 2005 | Gentoolkit | bug 76676 | equery crashes on trying to parse version numbers |
| 22 | Nov | 2004 | LyX | bug 1748 | Setting Multicolumn clobbers border settings |
| 4 | Jul | 2004 | Portage | bug 56085 | g-cpan croaks on ParseDate / frogbak |
| 7 | Jun | 2004 | OSCON | mail archive | One could not register without promising to buy something |
| 27 | Dec | 2003 | atanks | bug 866421 | Allegro mouse routines not thread-safe |
| 27 | Oct | 2003 | k3b | bug 66665 | No burning from kio_slaves |
| 23 | Dec | 2003 | par2 | forum | * Remove 100% redundancy limit |
| 18 | Oct | 2003 | rrdtool | mail archive | * Feature: --no-major |
| 6 | Dec | 2003 | par2 | forum | Par1 just doesn't work sometimes |
| 5 | Oct | 2003 | Ports | mail archive | * Update LTris to 1.0.5 |
| 3 | Oct | 2003 | LTris | mail archive | * Add an Expert Mode to LTris |
| 7 | Aug | 2003 | Portage | bug 28137 | /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors should allow for arguments to modules |
| 23 | Jul | 2003 | KSysGuard | bug 61512 | sysctl() data format error |
| 16 | Jul | 2003 | Slashdot | mail archive | A minor date-parsing issue in index.pl&issue= |
| 12 | Jul | 2003 | PHP | bug 24624 | Storing config values as 32-bit signed integers → wrap |
| 12 | Jul | 2003 | PHP | bug 24623 | G is for Gigabytes |
| 27 | Jun | 2003 | GCC | bug 11344 | pop_binding ICE on name overlaps between friends in templates |
| 25 | Apr | 2003 | Screen | mail archive | input box during slowpaste → crash |
| 11 | Nov | 2002 | Ports | cvs log | Update parchive to 1.1 |
| 10 | Nov | 2002 | Ratpoison | mail archive | setenv issues |
| 19 | Mar | 2002 | burncd | PR-36085 | Burning mode2 tracks from stdin |
| 14 | Jan | 2002 | natd | cvs log | Don't generate duplicate packets - drop, don't retry |
| 25 | Nov | 2001 | Bash | mail archive | SIGINT on alias → "bash: xmalloc: cannot allocate 26 bytes" |
| 23 | Oct | 2001 | Ports | PR-31465 | An infinite loop in ports/print/ft2demos |
| 4 | Jul | 2001 | NTP | PR-28704 | An overflow error when parsing ntp.conf |
Also, in the same spirit, my wikipedia contributions.
