The Track Buggar ... erhh ... I mean the Bug Tracker

[HawkerT]

While the bug tracker be a sparkling evidence of the resolve and commitment of this here fine community, it is not equally clear in it's intrinsic do's and dont's.

So ... my questions are these:

1) Is there a project manager prioritising the bugs and assigning the fine programming resources from this community to each bug? Be this gentleman the mod compiler himself? Or be he 'not at all' and thus only a phantom born out of common sense amongst the contributers? (I truly trust that there is a lot of communications going on behind the scenes amongst the contributers).

2) I have been bold enough to report a bug on the bug tracker! Am I responsible for changing it's status when a build update solves the thing? Or is this a task for the person solving the bug? Or maybe a task for the head honcho whomever he be?

3) In short ... what are my responsibilities after having reported a bug on the buggar <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/type_1.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":nk" border="0" alt="type_1.gif" />

All the best
Frans

 

[Doober]

I'm just a reporter, so the modders can correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I've seen, the modders can assign things to themselves. You have to be set up to do so though. Otherwise, I think Pieter Boelen (the modpack compiler) can assign it to you if you have the fix. As a reporter, you should post your error logs and any other log files that are relevant as well as give detailed info on the problem. You do not have to assign the problem to anyone, but if you have made a fix, you can upload it on there and Pieter or someone else will change the status. Modders/Bug Fixers may post additional questions, so if you do put up an issue, check back periodically to see how the progress is. I believe you will get an email if anything new occurs with your issue, at least I do, I don't remember if that is an option I turned on or if it always does that. Sometimes it does take a while before a certain issue is resolved, so patience is important. Hope that helps! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

 

[Pieter Boelen]

IncredibleHat, Hook and me are all set as project manager and we can update all stuff on the bug tracker. IncredibleHat used to do this, but he's gone for the moment. I haven't done much with the Bug Tracker lately, because I have a lot of other things to keep track of as well, not just PotC stuff. In any case: The only "responsibility" you have after reporting a bug is to check in on the progress every now and then and answer any questions the bugfixers might be having about the bug.

At the moment we don't actually have many bugfixers, so the bug fixing is going at a dead slow pace. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":?" border="0" alt="unsure.gif" />