Today, I submitted a patch (the first free software lisp one in months for me!) to the Hunchentoot project, and it got accepted. Yay!

Some backstory: Hunchentoot’s 1.0.0 release dropped a lot of implementation-dependent features, among them functionality to invoke the debugger if an error happens while handling a request. While workarounds exist, none of them were obvious to new users or users who recently upgraded.

The patch I sent should fix this, hopefully. It adds a rudimentary error handling protocol to Hunchentoot, and provides two generic functions whose behavior can be adapted to your error handling needs. You can see for yourself in Hunchentoot’s svn repository.

If you’re a Hunchentoot user, I urge you to test this (in both development mode using debuggable-acceptor and running with the default settings). The sooner you find bugs, the sooner they can be fixed, the sooner a release can be pushed out. And if you don’t find bugs at all, that’s cool, too (-: