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authorCarsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>2010-08-16 17:58:33 +0200
committerCarsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>2010-08-16 17:58:33 +0200
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Mention that bug reports should be using the latest Org version if possible
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diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
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@@ -727,10 +727,15 @@ active region by using the mouse to select a region, or pressing
If you find problems with Org, or if you have questions, remarks, or ideas
about it, please mail to the Org mailing list @email{emacs-orgmode@@gnu.org}.
If you are not a member of the mailing list, your mail will be passed to the
-list after a moderator has approved it.
-
-For bug reports, please provide as much information as possible, including
-the version information of Emacs (@kbd{M-x emacs-version @key{RET}}) and Org
+list after a moderator has approved it@footnote{Please consider subscribing
+to the mailing list, in order to minimize the work the mailing list
+moderators have to do.}.
+
+For bug reports, please first try to reproduce the bug with the latest
+version of Org available - if you are running an outdated version, it is
+quite possible that the bug has been fixed already. If the bug persists,
+prepare a report and provide as much information as possible, including the
+version information of Emacs (@kbd{M-x emacs-version @key{RET}}) and Org
(@kbd{M-x org-version @key{RET}}), as well as the Org related setup in
@file{.emacs}. The easiest way to do this is to use the command
@example
@@ -749,7 +754,7 @@ about:
@item What did you expect to happen?
@item What happened instead?
@end enumerate
-@noindent Thank you for helping to improve this mode.
+@noindent Thank you for helping to improve this program.
@subsubheading How to create a useful backtrace