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| <p class="head">BIRT Community</p> |
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| <h1>Newsgroup</h1> |
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| The BIRT newsgroup is for users of the project to ask questions, discuss ideas |
| and so on. Join in and get involved! |
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| <dt><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups">Information and Signup</a> |
| <dd>Guidelines for using the newsgroups. Instructions for signing up. |
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| <dt><a href="news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.birt">news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.birt</a> |
| <dd>The easiest way to access the newsgroup is using your favorite news reader. |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://www.eclipse.org/newsportal/thread.php?group=eclipse.birt"> |
| Simple Web Interface</a> |
| <dd>If you don't have a newsreader, or can't access the NNTP server, use this |
| simple web interface. |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.birt/maillist.html"> |
| Archive</a> |
| <dd>Eclipse keeps a history of past newsgroup postings for your reference. |
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| <h1>Bugzilla</h1> |
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| BIRT uses Bugzilla to track bugs and enhancements. |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/">Sign Up</a> |
| <dd>Create a Bugzilla account. Learn how to use Bugzilla. |
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| <dt><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=BIRT"> |
| Report a Bug or Enhancement</a> |
| <dd>When reporting a bug, please give the exact steps to reproduce the problem. |
| Please explain what went wrong, and what you expected to happen. For an enhancement, |
| please explain how you'd use the new feature. |
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| BIRT bugs are often associated with a report design. Please attach your design to |
| your Bugzilla entry. |
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| If you encounter a problem such as "An error occurred", or failure to open views or |
| editors, please attach your Eclipse log file. To see the exception, use |
| Window→Show View→Other. Open the PDE Runtime group and choose Error Log. |
| Within the error log window, find the BIRT exception (if any) that just occurred. |
| Double click on the error in question and youll see a stack trace. Paste that |
| into your bug report, preferably as a file attachment. |
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| <dt><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/query.cgi?product=BIRT"> |
| Search Bugs</a> |
| <dd>Find BIRT-related bugs using the Bugzilla search facility. |
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| <h1>Mailing Lists</h1> |
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| Eclipse provides <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mail/index.html"> |
| mailing lists</a> for each project. BIRT provides one general-purpose |
| list: |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-news"> |
| birt-news</a> |
| (<a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/birt-news/maillist.html">archive</a>) |
| <dd>Notifications to BIRT users about BIRT milestone and stable builds and |
| other noteworthy information. |
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| BIRT also provides mailing lists for developers contributing to BIRT: |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-dev"> |
| birt-dev</a> |
| (<a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/birt-dev/maillist.html">archive</a>) |
| <dd>Development discussions about BIRT of interest to all BIRT |
| committers. Topics include PMC meeting minutes, source code structure, |
| CVS management, and integration among the various BIRT components. |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-charting-dev"> |
| birt-charting-dev</a> |
| (<a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/birt-charting-dev/maillist.html">archive</a>) |
| <dd>Discussions about the charting subproject. |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-report-engine-dev"> |
| birt-report-engine-dev</a> |
| (<a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/birt-report-engine-dev/maillist.html">archive</a>) |
| <dd>Discussions about the reporting engine subproject. |
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| <dt><a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/birt-report-designer-dev"> |
| birt-report-designer-dev</a> |
| (<a href="frameizer.php?page=http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/birt-report-designer-dev/maillist.html">archive</a>) |
| <dd>Discussions about the report designer subproject. |
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| <h1>Contributions</h1> |
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| Want to contribute to the BIRT project? |
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| <dt><a href="build/build_instr.html">Build Instructions</a> |
| <dd>How to download BIRT source and build it. |
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| <dt><a href="project">Project Information</a> |
| <dd>How the project is structured, who's on the PMC, project roles, etc. |
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| <dt><a href="http://www.eclipse.org/mail">Mailing List</a> |
| <dd>While the newsgroup is for people who use BIRT, the mailing list is for those |
| who help develop BIRT. |
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| <dt><a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=BIRT"> |
| Contribute Fixes</a> |
| <dd>The first step in contributing to BIRT is to learn the code, and there is no |
| better way to do that then to fix some bugs or add a minor feature. Contribute the |
| code back to the project by attaching it to a Bugzilla entry. Let the team know |
| about the fix via the mailing list. |
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