Where to report bugs

[Nick]

New! Improved!

New preferred method of reporting bugs is to create a new issue here.

Here are step-by-step instructions for reporting a bug. Depending on the nature of the bug, it may be worth some preliminary enquiries to see whether it is actually a bug or simply a wonderful, surprising piece of game design.

1. Go to the issues page on Github.
2. Click the green "New Issue" button near the top right.
3. Give a short descriptive title to your bug; if it's not a report for the current official release, please include what version it it in your title.
4. In the "Write" pane below the title, give sufficient details to fully describe the problem; this can include links.
5. Add any relevant files (a savefile is sometimes helpful).
6. Click "Labels" on the right and add a type label from the list (they start with "T:") - usually you will want T: bug.
7. Click "Milestone" on the right and choose the "Triage" milestone.
8. Click the green "Submit new issue" button at the bottom and you are done.

[mattmiller057]

Do we have a sticky on that bug report? Yet!

[Magnate]

Ok, are we supposed to report bugs here or is this supposed to be informing us where to report bugs? As it is I'm just going to mention it in that long thread I started.

Don't report them in this thread, and deep in the middle of long threads isn't the best idea either. If it's a new bug, best start a new thread.

[Oramin]

Ok, are we supposed to report bugs here or is this supposed to be informing us where to report bugs? As it is I'm just going to mention it in that long thread I started.

[ekolis]

It's not points of spell, it's points used to cast spells. But yeah, the naming could be more consistent...

[Timo Pietilä]

While spelunking in the depths of Angband, I noticed the following: In the description of the Staff of the Magi, there is a lack of adequate spacing between the words mana and points. It looks like manapoints. Unless that is the correct spelling. But how is SP=manapoints? Isn't it spell points? Now I am curious if it is called mana points elsewhere.

Manapoints and spellpoints are usual ways to write those things. It is a name of the concept.
Point of mana is one manapoint. How much mana, or how many manapoints.

Spellpoint I think is a bit less clear naming because "point of spell" doesn't really make any sense. Neither does spell point, unless there is some point of space/time to make/cast/use a spell.

[OOD Town drunk]

While spelunking in the depths of Angband, I noticed the following: In the description of the Staff of the Magi, there is a lack of adequate spacing between the words mana and points. It looks like manapoints. Unless that is the correct spelling. But how is SP=manapoints? Isn't it spell points? Now I am curious if it is called mana points elsewhere.

Anyway, I hope this is the right place to place this piece of peaceful pizza. Did I say peaceful pizza? I meant information.

[jens]

Max, one observation: don't bother coming up with complex rules like these. Regular people will just not bother following them.

In general I agree.

I guess we could hope we have lots of irregular people here?

I think this is somewhat true, Angband is a special game, and might well attract strange folk... But I guess it's not quite enough to counter pav's statement...

[Max Stats]

Max, one observation: don't bother coming up with complex rules like these. Regular people will just not bother following them.

I guess we could hope we have lots of irregular people here?

[pav]

Max, one observation: don't bother coming up with complex rules like these. Regular people will just not bother following them.

[Max Stats]

How about a sticky topic in Development and Vanilla detailing the requested procedure for posting bug reports in each forum. Such as:

• Development is for bugs in nightlies, Vanilla is for bugs in releases.
• Come up with a list of tags similar to the one used in the issue tracker that are requested to be put on a bug report to make tracking and searching easier.
• Teach newbies how to search the topics and use the aforementioned tags to see if a bug has been reported before before posting a new report.
• Give guidance for when to use the issue tracker and when to post to the forums to report issues.
• Anything else anyone can think of?

[pav]

Sounds like section creep. Not my idea of useful wrt forums.

[Magnate]

Since development is so active and bugs are so common, why not just a Forum Sub-Heading for Vanilla Bugs, then each bug can indeed have it's own thread (and you wouldn't have to rely on the 'forum search' to find it cause it probably wouldn't get buried very deep), Pav permitting.

Well if we can do sub-fora, let's just have one for each version! Then you'd report it in the Vanilla/3.3.0 subforum, or whatever, and it would all be very neat indeed. The top-level Vanilla forum for feature discussion, and the sub-fora for bugs. (And the AAR forum for AARs, of course.)

[buzzkill]

Since development is so active and bugs are so common, why not just a Forum Sub-Heading for Vanilla Bugs, then each bug can indeed have it's own thread (and you wouldn't have to rely on the 'forum search' to find it cause it probably wouldn't get buried very deep), Pav permitting.

[Magnate]

Then you'd have each bug in the same thread, which can make reports harder to track down.

People tend to report bugs in the thread announcing/describing the version they're playing (May 22nd nightly, or whatever), but I think it would be more helpful if each bug had its own thread. Then it would be easier to see if it had been reported already.