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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0003528Site[All Projects] Suggestionpublic2018-09-30 07:462018-12-10 13:57
ReporterWubTheCaptain 
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PrioritynormalSeveritytweakReproducibilityN/A
StatusnewResolutionopen 
PlatformOSOS Version
Summary0003528: Add issue categories to Site project
DescriptionPlease add some of these suggested categories in MantisBT tracker for the Site project:

  • Forums
  • Issue tracker (or "MantisBT")
  • Wiki
  • IRC
  • Website (all "misc" or "other" issues)
  • (Administration?)


The "Site" project has so many different parts. Lacking the categories makes it more difficult for me to find issues from "View Issues" on MantisBT for different parts of the site, as they're all clumped into "one" category.

I think the "feature" severity is really meant to be "suggestion", with any higher severity actually being a "bug".
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Additional InformationThis ticket would be assigned "issue tracker" or "MantisBT" category, replacing the "[All Projects] Suggestion" category.

MantisBT's own bug tracker uses lots of categories at upstream, of course.'https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view_filters_page.php?for_screen=1&static=1&view_type=simple [^]'

Such categories may also be useful for the Doomseeker project, although those are not considered in this ticket at this time.
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2018-09-30 07:46WubTheCaptainNew Issue
2018-09-30 07:47WubTheCaptainNote Added: 0019840
2018-10-06 10:14WubTheCaptainNote Added: 0019929
2018-12-01 06:35Blzut3Note Added: 0020211
2018-12-05 19:20DrinkyBirdNote Added: 0020223
2018-12-06 21:52FilysteaNote Added: 0020224
2018-12-07 15:56DrinkyBirdNote Added: 0020226
2018-12-09 00:36FilysteaNote Added: 0020227

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(0019840)
WubTheCaptain   
2018-09-30 07:47   
Somewhat related to 0003525.
(0019929)
WubTheCaptain   
2018-10-06 10:14   
I've mostly stopped using the "[All Projects] Suggestion" category now, because it makes almost no sense; that one is almost always a "feature" severity. I can also reword my summary whenever to make it feel like a bug (an issue).

That's what this is place is about: Issues, not suggestions. My suggestion "add X" can be reworded into an issue "I wanted to do X, but it doesn't exist yet".
(0020211)
Blzut3   
2018-12-01 06:35   
We used to have projects for IRC and the Wiki. Categories would be better, but the problem is the admins of that aren't looking here so nothing ever happened with those tickets.

Obviously I have nothing against if they want to use the tracker but you'll have to convince them (which won't happen here). As it stands right now adding these categories would be useless since if it's not something I can address (basically the tracker and home page) then it's probably not getting addressed. (Although now and then forum issues get taken care of.)
(0020223)
DrinkyBird   
2018-12-05 19:20   
Quote from Blzut3
We used to have projects for IRC and the Wiki. Categories would be better, but the problem is the admins of that aren't looking here so nothing ever happened with those tickets.


I'm the wiki admin, and I check the Zan tracker frequently. It's probably not worth adding a wiki category or whatever because nobody ever really reports issues with the wiki. IRC is still hosted by Konar6 who has essentially disappeared so it's even less worth adding that.
(0020224)
Filystea   
2018-12-06 21:52   
The main problem with Wiki is that it is closed to edit for everyone. If it was open for anyone - debugging wiki would work much better, Now we have 30 people who are allowed to edit it. Because of that data out there is often outdated.
(0020226)
DrinkyBird   
2018-12-07 15:56   
Quote from Filystea
The main problem with Wiki is that it is closed to edit for everyone.

Yes, thanks to you.

And it's not closed to everyone, there's literally a "request account" link, and I check requests frequently.
(0020227)
Filystea   
2018-12-09 00:36   
Wikipedia administrator suggesting I was the one who turned the option off.

Funny. Since I have no power over the wiki.