Re: Mantis clean up - you can help too!
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 11:09 pm
-- everything reported until this point was done --
TimMayle: Mantis issues with severity set to "feature" are "write only" (meaning practically nobody reads them). As per policy, feature ideas should be posted on the forums, not in Mantis.
Also, I have an announcement. Issue status "Acknowledged" is reserved for issues which are ready to hand off to IV. No more questions need to be answered, no save files need to be attached, it is not questionable whether it should be fixed or not, the description is clear (or the comments are) - it is just ready to be taken as a task by a developer and he'll just dive in the code and resolve it. If someone will spot an issue which is worth acknowledging, you can link it in this thread (just be sure to add "to acknowledge" next to it). Hopefully a few months of doing this will enable an easy bug bash focus selection, so that developer time is maximized on fixing the well described bugs rather than on deciphering vague reports (community can handle the latter).
If there is an important issue that has a horrible description, a good comment can make it acknowledgable.
TimMayle: Mantis issues with severity set to "feature" are "write only" (meaning practically nobody reads them). As per policy, feature ideas should be posted on the forums, not in Mantis.
Also, I have an announcement. Issue status "Acknowledged" is reserved for issues which are ready to hand off to IV. No more questions need to be answered, no save files need to be attached, it is not questionable whether it should be fixed or not, the description is clear (or the comments are) - it is just ready to be taken as a task by a developer and he'll just dive in the code and resolve it. If someone will spot an issue which is worth acknowledging, you can link it in this thread (just be sure to add "to acknowledge" next to it). Hopefully a few months of doing this will enable an easy bug bash focus selection, so that developer time is maximized on fixing the well described bugs rather than on deciphering vague reports (community can handle the latter).
If there is an important issue that has a horrible description, a good comment can make it acknowledgable.