How do I add confirmation to someone's bug report? I don't see a button for that, so is it just that adding a comment and saying "me too" is confirmation?
Paul has said that an issue is confirmed once it has received 10 contributions (not sure if that's contributions from 10 different people or...). The implication being that it's automatic. If so the 'confirmed' status is slightly misleading as it leads people to assume that QA have confirmed the bug which is not the case. But he also said that QA can set the status to confirmed manually.
How do I add confirmation to someone's bug report? I don't see a button for that, so is it just that adding a comment and saying "me too" is confirmation?
AFAIK, the confirmation is by Frontier. Once they've confirmed it's an issue, it gets upgraded. At which point, users can now up-vote the issue.
You can add a comment before then in support of the issue; it should help.
Paul has said that an issue is confirmed once it has received 10 contributions (not sure if that's contributions from 10 different people or...). The implication being that it's automatic. If so the 'confirmed' status is slightly misleading as it leads people to assume that QA have confirmed the bug which is not the case. But he also said that QA can set the status to confirmed manually.I think that's not right* - once bugs get a certain number of 'me too' additions then they seem to become votable.
Paul has said that an issue is confirmed once it has received 10 contributions (not sure if that's contributions from 10 different people or...). The implication being that it's automatic. If so the 'confirmed' status is slightly misleading as it leads people to assume that QA have confirmed the bug which is not the case. But he also said that QA can set the status to confirmed manually.
Guys April fools was somedays ago... Nice try though, about the most ludicrous thing I heard this season. Hope next year you guys get one as good, but please do post it on time.
Our teams will still be able to check out individual reports and confirm them on our side.
I think you misunderstood - this thread is not the bug tracking system....Can someone confirm this error, not rocket science when you get a server error message.
I just want it fixed...
Yep totally misunderstand what this Frontier Issues Tracker systems all about, Normally when you report something it gets looked at by someone from the company supporting the product. Will this happen?I think you misunderstood - this thread is not the bug tracking system....
This is a bit worrying. While it's clear you need a way to prevent wild upvoting, this mechanism will soon lead to old issues being starved to death. In the past two years there's been many cases of long-standing bugs, even 1 year long ones. So, we will soon get to a point where we have to remove our votes from old issues to upvote new ones, eventually leading to leaving the old ones without enough votes and potentially meaning they will never get picked up for fixing (i.e., starvation).
Hit the nail on the head .... this is what I see happening, and may explain why many long-term bugs have never been fixed.
. Ah well, I guess fdevs plan to reduce spurious bug reports is working...I just want a bug I have to be looked at by Frontier and fixed and not go through this stupid process!
It's about the emphasis FD has historically placed upon bug fixesI'm not sure the new bug tracker can be blamed for old bugs that predate it.
You have 4 votes to spend on issues that you feel are important.
Votes do not replenish until an Issue is resolved
this is absolutely backwards. most people do not report bugs or engage with the bug fix process - so you engineer a mechanism that deters and blocks the small pool of players willing to spend time helping you out by testing and replicating bugs...
genius.
It's about the emphasis FD has historically placed upon bug fixes
this is absolutely backwards. most people do not report bugs or engage with the bug fix process - so you engineer a mechanism that deters and blocks the small pool of players willing to spend time helping you out by testing and replicating bugs...
genius.