Reproduce the Reporter's Container Before You Patch an OSS Bug
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Most rejected open-source patches fail for a boring reason. The bug was never reproduced on the reporter's environment. The diff looks reasonable, the tests pass locally, and the maintainer closes the pull request with one line: "cannot reproduce." This post describes a five-step loop that turns an…
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Reproduce the Reporter's Container Before You Patch an OSS Bug