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Willy Tarreau 41f638c1eb DOC: improve the wording in CONTRIBUTING about how to document a bug fix
Insufficiently described bug fixes are still too frequent. It's a real
pain to create each new maintenance release, as 3/4 of the time is spent
trying to guess what problem a patch fixes, which is already important
in order to decide whether to pick the fix or not, but is even more
capital in order to write understandable release notes.

Christopher rightfully demands that a patch tagged "BUG" MUST ABSOLUTELY
describe the problem and why this problem is a bug. Describing the fix
is one thing but if the bug is unknown, why would there be a fix ? How
can a stable maintainer be convinced to take a fix if its author didn't
care about checking whether it was a real bug ? This patch tries to
explain a bit better what really needs to appear in the commit message
and how to describe a bug.

To be backported to all relevant stable versions.
2019-07-26 15:46:21 +02:00
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include BUILD: threads: add the definition of PROTO_LOCK 2019-07-25 07:53:56 +02:00
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tests CLEANUP: fix a misspell in tests/filltab25.c 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
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CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev1 2019-07-16 19:15:28 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING DOC: improve the wording in CONTRIBUTING about how to document a bug fix 2019-07-26 15:46:21 +02:00
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Makefile REORG: proto_htx: Move HTX analyzers & co to http_ana.{c,h} files 2019-07-19 09:24:12 +02:00
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ROADMAP DOC: update the outdated ROADMAP file 2019-06-15 21:59:54 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev1 2019-07-16 19:15:28 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev1 2019-07-16 19:15:28 +02:00

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for
ease of use.

Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for :

  - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy
  - BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use
  - LICENSE for the project's license
  - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions

The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory :

  - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy
  - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual
  - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual
  - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine
  - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux
  - doc/management.txt for the management guide
  - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite
  - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference
  - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style
  - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)