Bugzilla

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"Backup" of the old bugs

found these in my feed reader:

Bug #	Subject	Opened	Assignee	Priority	Severity
143	Apertium.org should include virtual keyboard	2013-08-28	Wynand Winterbach	P5	enhancement
142	apertium-preprocess-transfer doesn't allow DOCTYPE declaration.	2013-01-16	Francis Tyers	P5	trivial
141	Apertium Spanish-English translator gives an empty translation for "se"	2012-10-31	Mireia Ginesti	P5	minor
140	apertium-transfer -b outputs tl tag when asked for sl tag if sl tag empty	2012-10-16	Francis Tyers	P5	enhancement
139	DESTDIR and modesdir creation sweep	2012-10-10	Francis Tyers	P5	enhancement
138	patch apertium-unformat.1: Some corrections to the manual (groff warnings)	2012-09-19	Francis Tyers	P5	minor
137	apertium-transfer.1: minor corrections to the manual (groff warnings)	2012-09-19	Francis Tyers	P5	minor
136	*-preprocess-transfer.1: Minor corrections to the manual (groff warnings)	2012-09-19	Francis Tyers	P5	minor
135	apertium-multiple-translations.1: Warnings from groff for the manual	2012-09-18	Francis Tyers	P5	minor
134	does not compile with clang due to variable length arrays	2012-08-22	Francis Tyers	P5	minor
133	apertium-transfer can match def-attrs case insensitively	2012-03-28	Francis Tyers	P5	enhancement
132	superfluous space inserted after a superblank containing a space if preceding word could've had a mwe analysis	2012-03-22	Sergio Ortiz	P5	normal
130	derived forms of places change case of first letter	2011-08-13	Francis Tyers	P4	enhancement
126	translation of ki (add tests)	2011-08-08	gantu	P3	enhancement
120	Fix remaining transducer issues for Kyrgyz	2011-07-20	Jonathan	P5	normal
111	tr-ky contrastive eval	2011-07-15	gantu	P3	enhancement
119	ky twol: px3+accusative problem	2011-07-15	Jonathan	P1	normal
118	DET-ITG problem	2011-07-15	Jonathan	P3	major
117	make ky lexc and twol recursive	2011-07-15	Jonathan	P5	enhancement
114	Twolc python library	2011-07-15	Jonathan	P3	minor
113	Feed parser & scraper	2011-07-15	Jonathan	P4	enhancement
108	The null character makes lt-proc exit (if not given -z)	2011-01-26	Sergio Ortiz	P5	normal
105	apertium-preprocess-transfer should warn if two rules share a pattern	2010-07-06	Francis Tyers	P5	enhancement
101	apertium-retxt gives SIGABRT	2009-08-29	Francis Tyers	P5	normal
104	dix files with empty lhs's in pardefs give spurious analyses instead of error	2010-04-19	Sergio Ortiz	P5	minor
103	/dev/stdout isn't always writable	2010-01-03	Francis Tyers	P1	blocker
69	HTML tags are applied to the wrong words	2008-05-13	Mireia Ginesti	P2	normal
99	Deformatters under Windows and removing tmpnam warning	2009-08-04	Sergio Ortiz	P5	enhancement
94	after analysis in en-eo, a blank is output too soon	2009-04-26	Sergio Ortiz	P5	minor
92	post-gen gobbles up ~ character	2009-03-09	Sergio Ortiz	P5	enhancement
85	std::exception in en-ca.autogen.bin	2008-11-13	Sergio Ortiz	P4	minor
83	ODT has problems with soft hyphen	2008-10-07	Sergio Ortiz	P5	minor
82	Macro 'gen_nbr_determinante' does not seem to be invoked	2008-10-06	Mireia Ginesti	P5	enhancement
81	Case change doesn't work in interrogative sentences	2008-10-06	Jacob Nordfalk	P5	enhancement
76	Security issue in temporary files with apertium scripts	2008-08-27	Francis Tyers	P5	normal
71	Some taggers eat up numbers	2008-06-04	Felipe Sánchez Martínez	P5	major
66	La paraula "The" genera un bot de línia	2008-04-15	Gema Ramírez Sánchez	P2	normal
68	tinylex sticks on 'loading configuration'	2008-05-09	Enrique Benimeli	P2	normal
44	apertium script fails with dash	2007-12-10	Francis Tyers	P2	trivial
64	Apertium-tolk should give proper warning when no linguistic data is installed	2008-03-31	Wynand Winterbach	P2	normal
53	apertium-desrtf no encapsula bien las marcas rtf	2008-01-22	Francis Tyers	P2	normal
36	determine charset in deformatters	2007-11-14	Francis Tyers	P2	enhancement
31	Version header for binary files	2007-10-28	Sergio Ortiz	P5	enhancement
18	Opción en el tagger para cambiar el mapeo de etiquetas finas a gruesas	2007-10-01	Sergio Ortiz	P2	enhancement

Bugzilla

Bugzilla is a widely used bug tracking/reporting system. Apertium has a bugzilla installation here. Please feel to report your bug in any language you are comfortable with.

Reporting a bug in the engine

If you find a bug in the engine, for example a segfault, or a malprocessing of text, please try and make the bug report as specific as possible. So if it happens in a phrase or a sentence, try and reduce the phrase until you find the exact part that is causing the error. This is not always possible, but in general, the less input text the better.

For example, if there is an error when you try and translate the phrase:

"The big black cat sat on the small brown rat"

First try "The big black cat", if that works, try "The big black cat sat", etc. Just chop and change the phrase or sentence until you manage to find the smallest possible amount of text that causes the bug. This will help the developers to hone in on the problem area more rapidly.

Please try and include the following information:

• The versions of both apertium and lttoolbox,
• If you compiled from source, or are using a package
• If you compiled from source, include the version of the compiler (gcc --version), and of the C++ library (ls /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.*)
• The versions of libxml2-dev and libpcre3-dev (ls /usr/lib/libpcre* /usr/lib/libxml*)
• Any more information you think relevant.

Furthermore, please try and identify the module in which the error is happening. If you aren't sure how to do this, please come on irc and someone will assist you.

Reporting a bug with a language pair

Mostly bugzilla is used for software which can ostensibly, at any moment, not have any bugs. Machine translation is different, our language pairs will always have bugs, often quite gaping ones. So, in order to not be inundated, take heed of the following (incomplete) advice:

Do not

• Do not report bugs which you can easily fix. For example, if the translation of "house boat" is wrong, instead of reporting a bug saying "Translation of 'house boat' wrong in apertium-en-ca", either fix it yourself, or email the fix to the language pair maintainer to fix.
• Do not report feature requests. These should be saved for the TODO list. Do not report bugs on items which are in the TODO list. For example, if "Fix personal pronouns" is in the TODO list, do not report bugs about personal pronouns.

Do

• Do report bugs which effect the whole pair. For example, if we can analyse, but not generate ijekavian forms of words in Serbo-Croatian, and we should be able to generate these forms.
• Do report bugs which are marked as fixed in a TODO file. For example if attributive/predicative adjective forms are not working in Afrikaans and they are marked as fixed, submit a bug!
• Read the bug reporting guidelines.

Submitting a patch

If you have a patch that fixes a bug in SVN, please feel free to attach it to the bug report and one of the developers will look over it as soon as possible. To create a patch use:

$ svn diff -r HEAD

Or something to this effect.