[Help-liquidwar6] Bug reports

[Christian Mauduit]

Hi,

Just a little reminder about bug reports -> it's really OK to send bug
reports to this list when it's low traffic (like now, for instance), for
it's a good occasion to keep in touch, exchange some thoughts on the game,
but just FYI, there's a dedicated interface on Savannah. It's mentionned
in the docs:

http://www.gnu.org/software/liquidwar6/manual/html_node/Report-bugs.html

Still, I acknowledge it's sometime a needle in haystack game to find such
information in a documentation which starts being rather big now. No
perfect solution, but there's been an interesting debate recently on a GNU
internal programming list, where that subject was discussed "how do we
make bug reporting more straightforward?". More precisely, what to put at
the end of the "--help" command line output. My opinion is that, in
practice, the default "send a mail to bug-liquidwar6 at gnu.org" does not
work (this list is spammed as hell, I just garbage contents to /dev/null)
but web interfaces really help by "ticketing" stuff. In any case, a well
formed bug-report such as those sent by both of you (Kasper & Tim) is just
everything I need, it's an order of magnitude better to receive a usable
bug report by the wrong canal than receiving a "program crashes [period]"
on a fancy feature-packed interface.

I have created entries for these bugs on Savannah.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?25503
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?25504

Have a nice day,

Christian.

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