+JABs Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 This is a feature request for this this part of the forums. Geocaching.com Web site. At the top you have a pinned area for the mods. One more pinned subject would be where you (Groundspeak) could post current known problems, bugs, fixes etc. currently been worked on. Updated weekly/monthly to let us know. This may stop alot of double/triple questions. If we know that you know then atleast someone knows. Just a thought. Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted August 14, 2008 Share Posted August 14, 2008 At the top you have a pinned area for the mods. One more pinned subject would be where you (Groundspeak) could post current known problems, bugs, fixes etc. currently been worked on. Updated weekly/monthly to let us know. This may stop alot of double/triple questions. If we know that you know then atleast someone knows. You mean like this and this. Link to comment
+JABs Posted August 14, 2008 Author Share Posted August 14, 2008 Not quite. 1-Release Notes by OpinioNate Shows the current list of Bugs fixed and site upgrades. 2-Geocaching Announcements Here you can read the latest announcements of changes to the Geocaching.com web site. Really only lists changes, bug fixes and release notes. It needs to be placed in the pinned seaction of Geocaching.com Web Site Where one could go if they find a bug and not need to read through 7 pages of topics to find out if there bug has been reported (as some topics cover several different problems). Pinned under say release notes and called say Known Bugs, with a release of a new list fortnightly. It would mean one would have somewhere to look if they come across a problem and see if Groundspeak where awhere of the problem and are working on it or if there problem is not listed then a new topic to report this problem could be started. Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Isn't that what this is? Link to comment
+JABs Posted August 15, 2008 Author Share Posted August 15, 2008 baloo who have not tried to understand my posting Link to comment
+baloo&bd Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 baloo who have not tried to understand my posting Sorry, were you having difficulty understanding the answer? What you are requesting already exists so I was pointing you to the areas. Link to comment
+sTeamTraen Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 I don't know of any other software company which does this. Prioritising resources to fix bugs is a complex job; bugs are typically written up in a system which is designed to make it easy for the programmers to keep track of them. Writing up the bugs in such a way that people reading the forums would understand them (and see something family-friendly ), would be a pretty resource-hungry activity in its own right, and it would have to be done at least in part by the programmers themselves, thus making their time even more scarce. Personally, I'm amazed we even get release notes. Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 baloo who have not tried to understand my posting Shaka, when the walls fell Link to comment
+JABs Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 I don't know of any other software company which does this. Prioritising resources to fix bugs is a complex job; bugs are typically written up in a system which is designed to make it easy for the programmers to keep track of them. Writing up the bugs in such a way that people reading the forums would understand them (and see something family-friendly ), would be a pretty resource-hungry activity in its own right, and it would have to be done at least in part by the programmers themselves, thus making their time even more scarce. Personally, I'm amazed we even get release notes. Thanks sTeam for explaining more the posting a link to here. Link to comment
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