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Acknowledgement#

The authors would like to acknowledge all the users that report bugs and/or request features for their precious help.

Citing BORIS#

If you have used BORIS for publications, please cite:

Friard, O. and Gamba, M.,
BORIS: a free, versatile open-source event-logging software for video/audio coding and live observations.
(2016) Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 1325–1330.

DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12584

You can also send us a nice postcard.

Please consider to give a star to the BORIS GitHub repository.

Bug reports and features request#

Please report any bug you will find in the latest BORIS version using the GitHub repository.

Prior to report a bug please:

  • Check the Frequent Asked Question (FAQ) section
  • Check if the issue was not already reported (GitHub repository)
  • Delete the configuration file and try again (see configuration file).

Remember to indicate:

  • your operating system
  • the version of your operating system
  • the computer you are using (model, RAM ...)
  • the version of BORIS you are using
  • Information on the mediafile you are coding (if any) See Tools > Media file information

Give all the information that will allow to reproduce the bug: a detailed procedure, a screen recording, etc.

In case of crash please send me the file boris_error.log generated in your home directory just after the crash (before relaunching BORIS):

Linux:
/home/YOUR_PROFILE_NAME/boris_error.log

Microsoft-Windows:
c:\Users\YOUR_PROFILE_NAME\boris_error.log

Note

If the bug you have reported is fixed remember to close the issue.