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Known Bug Round Up

topic posted Sun, February 24, 2008 - 2:56 AM by 
Yes I know this is the brainstorm tribe.. so lets brainstorm real fixes...
I've been watching the bug report tribe for a long time.. someone always has a bug or two...
This one struck me as a prime example of how we can help.
bugs.tribe.net/thread/e62...1392a8681db
It seems that the servers do indeed have issues and it involves cookies... I have seen on other forums ie segernet.com that has a (delete all cookies set by this board) key . 10 more threads with different names will have the same issue just worded and or titled differently.

My question is would help with the data base corruption that Tribe seems to be fighting?

Secondly how could we help track bug issues?
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  • TMIbo
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    Re: Known Bug Round Up

    Thu, February 28, 2008 - 11:31 AM
    By not trolling. By not permitting trolling. That would be a good start. Next, you'd have to have discipline in the bug reporters. Since most of the people on tribe are not professional bug writers/software testers, that is unlikely to happen. So, to be realistic...the best you could achieve would be about twice as good as what we have now.
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  • TMIbo
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    Re: Known Bug Round Up

    Thu, February 28, 2008 - 12:02 PM
    Hi Hazard,

    In a professional bug tracking system there would be someone who actually screens the bug forum, marks duplicate reports as duplicates, updates the original report with any pertinent data, and then requests that the originator close the duplicate bug (closing it for them if they do not respond in a timely fashion). This leads to a lot of clarity when looking at bug reports However, given that this is a bulletin board and not a professional bug tracking system, we are stuck. Further, the bug reporting tribe has seen better days...when there was staff to dedicate to policing it.

    Does tribe have an internal bug tracking system that works...and a procedure for moving problems reported in forae to that system for processing and professional level screening, etc? Anyone know? I've wondered about that for 3.5 years now...I suspect that they did at one point...
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