sh4bugs.com bug tracker is online!

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Status
Users: 227
Bugs: 170 (View List)
Top Submitter: andrea
Server Status: Online

sh4bugs.com is a BugZilla-powered bug tracking system created specifically for this community. I've seen a lot of game community forums but you guys are a different breed. I also love the SH series and wanted to help.

List of open bugs, ranked by Severity (or just click Search twice and click Severity column to see the same list)
*NEW: List of fixed bugs (also includes closed/dupes/invalids)

Getting Started

Go to the site, register and add bugs. Registration is automated, the usual email method.

Bug Fields

Component: The affected area of the game, such as Career, Menus and Options, Multiplayer, Museum, War Patrol, etc. You must click one or it will whine at you.
Severity: The normal bugzilla severities are used. Critical should be reserved for crashes or equally serious gameplay issues (do not use critical one lightly!) "Crash" removed, all Crash bugs changed to Critical since the red highlighting applied to Critical made it seem more important than Crash. Set the severity you think makes sense for the bug. It will likely be tweaked by others later. Please don't be offended if I lower your bug severity. I'm using only my flawed judgment and I hope the Voting feature will supercede the need for this at all.

Hardware: Enter the hardware you're using. If you really think it's "All" then choose all, but only if you're very sure. Ultimately it is better to just pick the hardware you saw the bug on, and the number of votes by people will tell the developers whether it's a hardware specific thing or not.

Voting

There's a link called "Vote for this bug" on each bug page. This link shows you all current votes. You can vote eithe a 1, 2, or 3 value on any bug. The more votes you set on a vote, the more important you think it is. There is virtually no limit on the total number of votes you can allocate to all the bugs in the system, but each one can only be voted as a 1, 2 or 3.

You can see the number of votes on any bug list you get via search by clicking "Change Columns" at the bottom (took me a while to notice this, I was hacking at Advanced Search and the URL bits for half an hour, lol..)

Helping Organize Bugs

If you want higher level access to help organize the bugs, just ask and I'll hand out such access liberally, since I don't want to do all the work.

Update Keep up the good work! Be sure to vote for bugs you think are important!
Server is up again. I nearly blew a gasket today with the overclocking... thought the RAM voltage was too high so I dropped it a lot, big mistake... wouldn't even boot in BIOS recovery mode! I nearly crapped myself. Fortunately these components are top notch and after a little rest it was able to boot at the low voltage and I was able to increase it again. I'm hoping the current voltage is right but who knows. As my pennance for teasing y'all I will enter 20 bugs tonight. This weekend I will probably have time to move this to my permanent web server, as it will require a little reconfiguration and time to transfer the whole thing.

Is This Worth Your Time?

A few people have expressed concern that they might invest time in this system without any assurance that the dev's are on board or even looking at it. This is not an UBI supported project and there's absolutely no indication that this is on the radar of anyone at UBI or the dev's, yet.

Consider this: If you worked at a dev house that used email/forums for bugtracking, and out of the blue proposed BugZilla, what do you think the response would be? It would be "good idea, go do it, come back when and show us that it's useful."

This thread is sticked at the top of the biggest online forum about SH4 that exists. Dev's have invited people to post bugs in the nearby "SH4 1.1 BUG THREAD", because that's the only way right now. I think if they're willing to sift through 500 forum posts to set their bug priorities, they'd embrace BZ if we do. If we force them to sift through the forums, they just won't do as good a job.

If we embrace this as a community and work to fill it with bugs, make it useful, stand behind the voting and rankings, then we can present it to UBI and it'll get on their radar. It has to prove itself.

Waiting to hear that the devs are on board before committing your time is the wrong idea. The dev's will get on board only after we've all spent the time to fill it with bugs and make it a useful resource for them.

I assure you I'll stand behind the system, and I'm confident the dev's will embrace it - it is left only to you to do your part. This may sound lame, but if everyone submitted 2 bugs or so, carefully checking for duplicates, we'd easily have the ~500 bugs or so that are currently in the main bug thread.