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Bug Fixes Archive
Last updated at 12:57 am UTC on 17 January 2006

BFAV has been replaced by the Mantis Server

The information on this page is maintained only for its historical value.

Summary

The Bug Fixes Archive consists of emails that are automatically extracted from the Squeak Mailing Lists. You can view them using the Frank Shearar (Bug Fixes Archive Viewer v2).

Or, you can take a quick look at the BFAV Server website at http://bfav.squeakfoundation.org/listing to see the contents of the archive, but the preferred method is with the BFAV2 viewer.

Which rules do I have to follow that posts to the Squeak Mailing Lists get stored properly in this archive?

See Reporting Bugs and Fixes, where this is explained in plain English along with other conventions.

For techie details, see below.


Historical

Starting in 1999, the archive was operated by Bert Freudenberg and located at http://swiki.gsug.org/sqfixes. It worked by grabbing properly-formatted posts to the Squeak Mailing Lists using a procmail regexp along with Bert's MailArchiveAction for PWS in Squeak 2.2.

In early 2003 a new Harvesting Process was established that used specially formatted subject lines to designate comments to subissions. Later that year, Brent Vukmer wrote BFAV, the Bug Fixes Archive Viewer, to more easily view the posts.

Using Brent's tool many more contibutions were submitted, leading to heavily increased load on Bert's SQFixes server. Since it was never designed to handle such traffic, Ken Causey started development of a dedicated server.

Since 2004, Ken's Bug Fixes Archive is used instead of the SQFixes archive. It does not primarily have an HTML interface, but instead is accessed by Frank Shearar, a client inside of Squeak that allows for easy filtering and responding to submissions.