I have gone through the bug reporting system recently, and I notice that some people confirm bugs without even verifying them.
If you don't verify a bug, it makes more work for the people doing the fixing, and its frustrating to go through bug reports and have to delete five or six just from grazing though because you know they aren't bugs just by reading the title. Also I find duplicate bug reports confirmed sometimes.
Here is the proper way to confirm a bug:
First, you look at unconfirmed bugs, you click one. You read through the description, and attempt to duplicate the bug. If your duplication fails, then dependant on your opinion, you reject it for either insufficiant information, or it not being a bug. If its already reported, then reject it for that.
I just don't like clearing out three battle coliseum bugs that are basically the same. I know that it isn't working properly. So, don't clear out bugs unless you are going to do it right. I don't care if you leave one unconfirmed because you are unsure of it, just don't confirm one that is invalid, its a waste of time.
Okay, that is the end of my rant. I am not angry at anyone, nor cal I tell who did it anyways. I just want to get the point across that you aren't actually helping by confirming bugs unless you can replicate the bug.
Oh yeah and priority:
High -> Problems with items being given/taken, sp being given/taken. Also any PHP or MySQL errors go here.
Med -> stats given wrong, items not working properly, mails not being sent. Things that are not critical basically. Only bugs that need to be fixed immediately should show up in the high ranking category. Bug that only mildly affect game play should be in this category
Low -> Everything that isn't really that important, like being unable to delete journol comments or something like that can go here.
-David.
If you don't verify a bug, it makes more work for the people doing the fixing, and its frustrating to go through bug reports and have to delete five or six just from grazing though because you know they aren't bugs just by reading the title. Also I find duplicate bug reports confirmed sometimes.
Here is the proper way to confirm a bug:
First, you look at unconfirmed bugs, you click one. You read through the description, and attempt to duplicate the bug. If your duplication fails, then dependant on your opinion, you reject it for either insufficiant information, or it not being a bug. If its already reported, then reject it for that.
I just don't like clearing out three battle coliseum bugs that are basically the same. I know that it isn't working properly. So, don't clear out bugs unless you are going to do it right. I don't care if you leave one unconfirmed because you are unsure of it, just don't confirm one that is invalid, its a waste of time.
Okay, that is the end of my rant. I am not angry at anyone, nor cal I tell who did it anyways. I just want to get the point across that you aren't actually helping by confirming bugs unless you can replicate the bug.
Oh yeah and priority:
High -> Problems with items being given/taken, sp being given/taken. Also any PHP or MySQL errors go here.
Med -> stats given wrong, items not working properly, mails not being sent. Things that are not critical basically. Only bugs that need to be fixed immediately should show up in the high ranking category. Bug that only mildly affect game play should be in this category
Low -> Everything that isn't really that important, like being unable to delete journol comments or something like that can go here.
-David.
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DebiLee
Well what do you know, that works! XD Thank you. <img src=/images/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif border=0>
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User not found:
And, I might add, it's been 3 days now and the poor thing is still bloated!
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User not found:
David, I even put my well fed pet into the resort to verify a bug <img src=/images/smilies/6398_emoticon_smile.gif border=0>
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You can change its status to unconfirmed, and then you have the option to reject the bug <img src=/images/smilies/6398_emoticon_wink.gif border=0>
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DebiLee
Could we somehow have a reject/remove choice added to bugs that have already been classified? I've seen "you've been directed here from the wrong place", etc., accepted as bugs when they're not, and there's currently no way to get rid of the incorrectly classified or accidentally duplicate accepted ones.
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