14 A mailing list where users may help each other exists, and you can
15 reach it by sending e-mail to @email{help-gnutls@@gnu.org}. Archives
16 of the mailing list discussions, and an interface to manage
17 subscriptions, is available through the World Wide Web at
18 @url{http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnutls}.
20 A mailing list for developers are also available, see
21 @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/lists.html}.
22 Bug reports should be sent to @email{bug-gnutls@@gnu.org}, see
25 @node Commercial Support
26 @section Commercial Support
28 Commercial support is available for users of GnuTLS. The kind of
29 support that can be purchased may include:
33 @item Implement new features.
34 Such as a new TLS extension.
36 @item Port GnuTLS to new platforms.
37 This could include porting to an embedded platforms that may need
38 memory or size optimization.
40 @item Integrating TLS as a security environment in your existing project.
42 @item System design of components related to TLS.
46 If you are interested, please write to:
49 Simon Josefsson Datakonsult
54 E-mail: simon@josefsson.org
57 If your company provides support related to GnuTLS and would like to
58 be mentioned here, contact the authors.
63 @cindex reporting bugs
65 If you think you have found a bug in GnuTLS, please investigate it and
70 @item Please make sure that the bug is really in GnuTLS, and
71 preferably also check that it hasn't already been fixed in the latest
74 @item You have to send us a test case that makes it possible for us to
77 @item You also have to explain what is wrong; if you get a crash, or
78 if the results printed are not good and in that case, in what way.
79 Make sure that the bug report includes all information you would need
80 to fix this kind of bug for someone else.
84 Please make an effort to produce a self-contained report, with
85 something definite that can be tested or debugged. Vague queries or
86 piecemeal messages are difficult to act on and don't help the
89 If your bug report is good, we will do our best to help you to get a
90 corrected version of the software; if the bug report is poor, we won't
91 do anything about it (apart from asking you to send better bug
94 If you think something in this manual is unclear, or downright
95 incorrect, or if the language needs to be improved, please also send a
98 Send your bug report to:
100 @center @samp{bug-gnutls@@gnu.org}
103 @section Contributing
107 If you want to submit a patch for inclusion -- from solving a typo you
108 discovered, up to adding support for a new feature -- you should
109 submit it as a bug report, using the process in @ref{Bug Reports}. There are some
110 things that you can do to increase the chances for it to be included
111 in the official package.
113 Unless your patch is very small (say, under 10 lines) we require that
114 you assign the copyright of your work to the Free Software Foundation.
115 This is to protect the freedom of the project. If you have not
116 already signed papers, we will send you the necessary information when
117 you submit your contribution.
119 For contributions that doesn't consist of actual programming code, the
120 only guidelines are common sense.
121 For code contributions, a number of style guides will help you:
126 Follow the GNU Standards document.
127 @c (@pxref{top, GNU Coding Standards,,standards}).
129 If you normally code using another coding standard, there is no
130 problem, but you should use @samp{indent} to reformat the code
131 @c (@pxref{top, GNU Indent,, indent})
132 before submitting your work.
134 @item Use the unified diff format @samp{diff -u}.
137 No reason whatsoever should abort the execution of the library. Even
138 memory allocation errors, e.g. when malloc return NULL, should work
139 although result in an error code.
141 @item Design with thread safety in mind.
142 Don't use global variables. Don't even write to per-handle global
143 variables unless the documented behaviour of the function you write is
144 to write to the per-handle global variable.
146 @item Avoid using the C math library.
147 It causes problems for embedded implementations, and in most
148 situations it is very easy to avoid using it.
150 @item Document your functions.
151 Use comments before each function headers, that, if properly
152 formatted, are extracted into Texinfo manuals and GTK-DOC web pages.
154 @item Supply a ChangeLog and NEWS entries, where appropriate.