Reporting Bugs
Please report any bugs you find in Inkscape at the Launchpad Bug Tracker for Inkscape. If you wish, you may also join the Inkscape Developer List to discuss the problem more directly.
Your bug reports are vital for making Inkscape a robust and capable application. It is an important goal that each Inkscape release be stable, crash-free, and behave itself well. Bug reports from users are the primary means of quality assurance, as we rely on the Open Source principle of "Many Eyes Make Bugs Shallow".
If the bug you report to the bug tracker is not fixed promptly, this may mean developers cannot reproduce it, or cannot understand your description, or are simply too busy with other things. Be persistent. As the original reporter, you are the person most interested in fixing it, so if your first report had no effect, you must not let it drop. There are many things you can do to help push your bug closer to a fix:
- Submit the bug to the tracker. Don't wait for someone else to do it. It's important, otherwise your report will be quickly forgotten. (But check the tracker first, your bug may be already there.)
- Submit complete information: version, platform, locale, steps to reproduce, and sample file(s) and screenshots if appropriate.
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If this is a crash, it's important to submit a backtrace. Use gdb to
get a backtrace as follows:
gdb <path to inkscape executable> (gdb) run [parameters (optional)] # Carry out the actions to make the program crash (gdb) bt
and send us the output. All of this can be done on Windows too, the Windows binary of gdb is available from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml.
Windows users can easily do a "time search" by downloading builds from "Development/Compiled Packages/Win32 Builds" link on the download page and finding the first one that doesn't break.
