Attention community: It was once said, we are ALL testers. A big part of that is the
bug tracker. Though it is still being well used, it isn't quite as maintained as it used to be.
In the past few months we've already come a long way. I considered making this post back in October and there were 837
open bug reports listed. Now there are 786 and when you take away those listed as "fixed pending release" it's down to 726. Still, 726 open bugs!
This is just bug reports, it doesn't count feature requests. A lot of these bugs are really old and some just need to be looked at and determined if they are even relevant any more.
Back in the day, we used to have these bug hunts all the time. The purpose is two-fold: To find and report new bugs (which should be ongoing anyway) and to start closing as many of those open bugs as we can and make the bug tracker nice and lean.
Here are some good examples:
bug 925 This one doesn't even apply any more since Harnquist's old shack is gone now. So we can go ahead and close it.
bug 1296 There have been a lot of changes in crafting since this one was reported. Is this still a problem? Can it be reproduced? Sometimes it's just a matter of someone giving it a try. If it can't be reproduced, we can go ahead and close the bug.
There's pages and pages of reports. So this bug hunt is a call to the community to look through them, see which ones you might be able to check out, see if you can reproduce the problem, and finally, report your findings in the comments section. If we get a good number of people checking out a page or two every once in awhile, we should be able to close a significant number of reports. Let's see how low we can go!
And if you don't have an account on flyspray, it's easy and free to make one.
Note if a bug is listed as "fixed pending release". If it was touched since November 19 (the release of 0.6) then it probably applies to the next release. But if it's before then, it should probably be in effect and can be closed. Just see if you can check if the issue is indeed addressed. The last settings update was before then so those will all go into effect in an upcoming update. We're pretty much caught up on all the settings reports.
