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BUGS AND NEW PORTS:  CONTACTING INFO-ZIP
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All bug reports and patches (context diffs only, please!) should be
submitted either through the new Info-ZIP Discussion Forum at
http://www.info-zip.org/board/board.pl or through the Info-ZIP SourceForge
site at http://sourceforge.net/projects/infozip/.  The forum allows file
attachments while SourceForge provides a place to post patches.  The old
Zip-Bugs@lists.wku.edu e-mail address for the Info-ZIP authors was
discontinued after heavy continuous spam, as was the QuickTopic discussion
forum.  The above methods are public, but we also can be reached directly
using the web reply page at http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html.  If you
need to send us files privately, contact us first for instructions.

"Dumb questions" that aren't adequately answered in the documentation
should also be directed to Zip-Bugs rather than to a global forum such
as Usenet.  (Kindly make certain that your question *isn't* answered by
the documentation, however--a great deal of effort has gone into making
it clear and complete.)

Suggestions for new features can be discussed on the new Discussion Forum.
A new mailing list for Info-ZIP beta testers and interested parties may
be created someday, but for now any issues found in the betas should use
the forum.  We make no promises to act on all suggestions or even all
patches, but if it is something that is manifestly useful, sending the
required patches to Zip-Bugs directly (as per the instructions in the
ZipPorts file) is likely to produce a quicker response than asking us to
do it--the authors are always ridiculously short on time.  (Please do
NOT send patches or encoded zipfiles to the Info-ZIP list.  Please DO
read the ZipPorts file before sending any large patch.  It would be
difficult to over-emphasize this point...)

If you are considering a port, not only should you read the ZipPorts file,
but also please check in with Zip-Bugs BEFORE getting started, since the
code is constantly being updated behind the scenes.  (For example, VxWorks,
VMOS and Netware ports were once claimed to be under construction, although
we have yet to see any up-to-date patches.)  We will arrange to send you the
latest sources.  The alternative is the possibility that your hard work will
be tucked away in a subdirectory and mostly ignored, or completely ignored
if someone else has already done the port (and you'd be surprised how often
this has happened).


BETA TESTING:  JOINING INFO-ZIP
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If you'd like to keep up to date with our UnZip (and companion Zip utility)
development, join the ranks of beta testers, add your own thoughts and
contributions, or simply lurk, you may join one of our mailing lists.
There is an announcements-only list (Info-ZIP-announce) and a general
discussion/testing list (Info-ZIP). You must be a subscriber to post, and
you can subscribe via the links on our Frequently Asked Questions page:

        http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/FAQ.html#lists

(Please note that as of late May 2004, the lists are unavailable pending
a move to a new site; we hope to have them restored shortly.  In the
interim ...)  Feel free to use our bug-reporting web page for bug reports
and to ask questions not answered on the FAQ page above:

        http://www.info-zip.org/zip-bug.html

For now the best option is to monitor and contribute to the various threads
on the new discussion forum site at:

      http://www.info-zip.org/board/board.pl

The second best way to contribute is through the various features at
SourceForge, such as the bug posting areas.

There is also a closed mailing list for internal discussions of our core
development team. This list is now kept secret to prevent us from being
flooded with spam messages.


-- Greg Roelofs (sometimes known as Cave Newt), principal UnZip developer
   guy, with inspiration from David Kirschbaum, was Author of this text.

-- Christian Spieler (shorthand: SPC), current UnZip maintenance coordinator,
   applied the most recent changes, with Ed Gordon providing a few additions.