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Smart Cache Manual
Chapter 6 - Contacting author

6.1 Sponsoring Smart Cache development

I have adopted method for sponsoring Free Software development invented by RMS. This allows people to request needed changes to software or consultation. Because of GPL Software license, you can hire anybody for doing that.

Do you need new feature, optimalization, bug-fix, help with source code, help with installation or configuration? I can do it for you -- if you pay a development costs. Current rate is $15 USD/hour with $30 minimum. Send it to e-gold.com account number 550694. I can also send you sources and binary package(s) on floppy disk, if you have trouble with downloading them.

6.2 Sending source code patches

  1. Do not ask if you can make some changes, make it and send me patches.
  1. Make sure that you have latest available version first.
  1. Use diff -u "distributed_src_dir" "hacked_src_dir" > mypaches
  1. Do not send xdelta patches.
  1. Compress patches with zip, bzip2 or gzip.
  1. Write documentation about your patches, what it does and how it should work.
  1. Try to test your code before sending.
  1. You must agree that your piece of code will be distributed under GPL.

6.3 Bug reporting

Try latest available version first, maybe your bug is fixed now. Then try to read this manual.

To make bug reports more usable write as much as possible from following informations:

  1. Smart Cache version. Very important.
  1. WWW browser version/ OS version.
  1. Do you use http_proxy ? If yes, which software is running there?
  1. Java runtime version
  1. If it is a fatal crash (exception) send stack trace.
  1. Description of problem and way how to reproduce it.
  1. If this problems appears with specific URL, send this URL.
  1. turn on all trace_* and provide request headers dump if this problem is specific to some URL.
  1. If this is problem with redirects (SC will go when clicked on link to old page, but it should not), send me sequence of URLs which failed.
  1. If this is problem with reload (shows old page) or redirects, send me default_refresh_pattern and pragma_no_cache setting. Also try if SHIFT + Reload in Netscape solves this problem. But you did trace_refresh first and look on it, right?

6.4 User registration/feedback letters

Try to include some of following informations. I am interested mainly in 3,9,10.

  1. Smart Cache version
  1. Operation System / Java version
  1. Where do you find this program
  1. How long you are using it
  1. Size of your cache
  1. What do you like/dislike
  1. What to include in future version(s)
  1. If running on network, how many people uses it
  1. What you do for your spiritual progress
  1. What is purpose/goal of your life

6.5 Addresses

  1. Homepage http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/.
  1. Mailing list http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/list.html.
  1. Latest Beta versions from CVS snapshot - http://home.worldonline.cz/~cz210552/scache-beta.html.
  1. Hobbes Archive, secondary distribution source - http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/.
  1. Metalab Unix Archive, Unix distribution package - http://metalab.unc.edu/.
  1. Author hsn@cybermail.net
  1. Czech Smart Cache pages http://www.volny.cz/martin.konicek/scache
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