### 14.5 Sending a Bug Report ¶

While StumpWM’s code-base is quite mature, it still contains some bugs. If you encounter one here are some guidelines for making sure the developers can fix it:

- Include a procedure for reproducing the bug/bad behavior. Ideally this will include numbered steps starting with instructions on how you start StumpWM. Also include what the expected behavior was.
- Be as detailed as possible. Then add more detail!
- Make sure its not something you introduced by using an empty `.xinitrc` containing only ‘`exec /path/to/stumpwm`’.
- Make sure the bug is present even when `.stumpwmrc` is empty.
- If you are using the git version, include the hash of the master branch, or better include the commit when you started to notice the bug.
- If you have code that fixes the bug, then open a pull request at https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/compare/.
- If you don’t have code to fix the bug, then open an issue at https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm/issues/new.