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Thread: POST CU Bugs~~ (an idea?)
Report 'em once and let it go.
I've basically been sending off new bugs as they are reported. In a few days after the dev team has a chance to sleep (I think they have been working almost 24 hours a day for a long time now to get the CU and the expansion done) I will compile everything together and send it again.
(emphasis and typo correction mine)
ZahrIna wrote:
I've not seen any recent updates on the Sticky'd bug thread and well, I was hoping to maybe get a Daily List of bugs that we could all look at. If we had something like that, we could all log in and /bug all of them before we do anything else.
To me, that snippet read as "The first thing everyone should do every time they log in is /bug every bug in the bug list, regardless of how many times it's been reported." That would be extremely counterproductive. Reporting bugs is great; encouraging massive amounts of duplicate reports is not. That is the only aspect of your post to which I was responding.
An updated in-forum bug list is great. (One of it's main purposes is to prevent duplicate bug reports!) Confirming things on your server is great. Posting what you know is great. Reporting things that are new is great. Just don't encourage "mass bug protests". That's all I ask.
Message Edited by Parody on 05-05-2005 05:30 PM
Parody wrote:
Having had the job of "guy who handles the incoming bug reports", all this really does is give someone more work to do deleting your duplicate reports. It doesn't help get your bugs handled any faster.
Report 'em once and let it go.
I think you misunderstand me. I am not an advocate of making anyone's job less effecient. As I stated in my original post: There might be something I've not thought of that would make this a bad thing so some feedback might be needed. This is also why I included: If I could find all of the current bugs in one place, I would happily log in just to check my server and /bug all that apply (or give feedback if something differs).
Aplace to see all of the "current" bugs and information would allow us to find out if it applies to our server, let us know that we are not crazy and that xxxx is a bug and has been reported, and if we do not need to /bug something already listed; we could at least advise "yes or no" to wether or not our server is being affected. Then we could also list bugs we've found but do not see reported, all in the same thread.
There is a difference between feedback and being defensive or assuming the worst intentions. I appreciate the input and clarification that it will produce duplicate reports that could possibly even slow the process. It's great to have someone who has a view of the other side of the fence (has had the job of "guy who handles the incoming bug reports").
However, the rest of your post does nothing to encourage communication.
Thank you, Gyopi for the heads up!! You work so hard for us!!