+Kiersolvd Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I've tried to edit the listing of a cache that is in a bookmark, but the system returns an error. Anyone else experience this? Link to comment
+paleolith Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I've tried to edit the listing of a cache that is in a bookmark, but the system returns an error. Anyone else experience this? Yeah, just encountered it a few seconds ago, came here thinking it hadn't been reported and you beat me to it. Must be some problem that started tonight or it would have been reported long ago. Looks like all bookmark edits fail. Edward Link to comment
+Great Scott! Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I noticed the same problem a couple of days ago. I had to delete the cache from the bookmark list and add it again to make the change. Link to comment
+two bison Posted October 11, 2009 Share Posted October 11, 2009 I ran into this problem a couple of days ago. Just checked ... problem still exists. "An Error Has Occurred" Please fix this, Thank you. Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yes Im also having this problem. Link to comment
+succotash Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 Yes, we have had this problem for a few days. We have several "work-in-progress" bookmarks for challenge caches and having to start these over would not be fun. Hopefully this problem can be fixed. Thank you. Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 We are investigating this issue and will have a fix asap. Thanks for letting us know. Link to comment
+Ocean Lovers Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 We are investigating this issue and will have a fix asap. Thanks for letting us know. I found this problem on Oct. 9 and submitted an error report. How soon do you expect it to be resolved? Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted October 12, 2009 Share Posted October 12, 2009 That all depends on whether it can be hotfixed right away, or if we need to push out a completely new build. I'll update you guys when I have more information. Sorry for the delay. Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 This issue is fixed but requires a fresh build to release. Currently we expect to release two weeks from today. I apologize sincerely for this delay. Link to comment
+paleolith Posted October 13, 2009 Share Posted October 13, 2009 (edited) Thanks, Nate! I guess that all non-trivial editing of bookmarks has to be put off for a couple of weeks. Where non-trivial means anything that's not feasible to do be deleting and adding. Edward Edited October 14, 2009 by paleolith Link to comment
+rob3k Posted October 14, 2009 Share Posted October 14, 2009 Just hit up against this myself and am glad to see a fix is already on the way. Link to comment
+Kiersolvd Posted October 14, 2009 Author Share Posted October 14, 2009 Thanks Nate. Knowing that it's been looked at and solution is in hand is good. Link to comment
+Ocean Lovers Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 This issue is fixed but requires a fresh build to release. Currently we expect to release two weeks from today. I apologize sincerely for this delay. Thanks for the update. I see now that a different error message--Server Error in '/' Application.--is being returned to an edit request now. Link to comment
+LeGodFather Posted October 17, 2009 Share Posted October 17, 2009 A few days ago, I also ran into this error (can't edit bookmarks), but there was a page with a box where I could enter what I did to get this error. Now, I only get this: Will be looking forward to the next update! Link to comment
+koikeeper Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Will be happy when this one gets fixed... glad to see it's being worked on Link to comment
+s32144 Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I've tried to edit the listing of a cache that is in a bookmark, but the system returns an error. Anyone else experience this? I am having the same problem and I am ready for it to be resolved. Just finished a long working puzzle cache and need to update my bookmark entries so I can log the final cache. Wonder why it takes so long to fix.... Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Wonder why it takes so long to fix.... Because it requires a completely new build, which means releasing code now would also propagate the two dozen other fixes that are only half completed. The result would not be pretty. The next release is scheduled for one week from today. Thanks for hanging in there. Link to comment
+paleolith Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Or to put it another way, if we were paying $300/year instead of $30/year, it could have been fixed immediately. Introducing a separate branch into development and deployment has serious costs. Most of us prefer the more cost-conscious approach. Edward Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Or to put it another way, if we were paying $300/year instead of $30/year, it could have been fixed immediately. Introducing a separate branch into development and deployment has serious costs. Most of us prefer the more cost-conscious approach. Edward Groundspeak releases hot fixes when they think a bug is seriously impacting the ability of users to find or log caches. Apparently editing bookmarks is not considered that critical. Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Or to put it another way, if we were paying $300/year instead of $30/year, it could have been fixed immediately. Introducing a separate branch into development and deployment has serious costs. Most of us prefer the more cost-conscious approach. Edward Groundspeak releases hot fixes when they think a bug is seriously impacting the ability of users to find or log caches. Apparently editing bookmarks is not considered that critical. There are some fixes that can be hotfixed and some that cannot. This is the latter. It has absolutely nothing to do with priority. Link to comment
+paleolith Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Groundspeak releases hot fixes when they think a bug is seriously impacting the ability of users to find or log caches. Apparently editing bookmarks is not considered that critical. To restate Nate's explanation again, they have to consider not only the impact of the bug but the cost and risks of a fast fix. I'm not familiar with their exact methodology, but in software development in general, sometimes the problem can be simple, the fix be simple, and yet rushing in a fix outside normal procedures can be very expensive. It is certainly possible to set up development procedures which allow almost any fix to be rushed into production, but there's a very sharply increasing cost/benefit ratio as you try to incorporate more kinds of fixes into "out of line" fixes. When you have to create separate development branches in order to decrease the time-to-fix, the cost goes way up. It's also possible to increase reliability so that we almost never see bugs in production, but there also the cost rises very sharply as you try to approach perfection. In addition, QA on out-of-line changes is very expensive. If only an isolated component needs to be changed, it's not unthinkable to take some shortcuts -- that's the hot fix. But if a full build is required, then a full release-level QA is also required. Software generally follows the principle that when you start pulling on strings, you discover that everything is connected to everything else. Would I like to have this bug fixed today? Yes, of course. Do I hear anyone saying they want the membership fee increased to $100/year (gold, not platinum) to pay for the kind of resources required for space-shuttle reliability levels? I haven't seen such a request, certainly not from me. Edward Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Thank you for that explanation, paleolith. You are dead on. Since we're already off topic... Some of you probably noticed we're on a ~4 week release cycle. That is 3 weeks of development, and one week of testing. We have a large team now and in order to keep things running smoothly we need structure and a plan. Disrupting that plan causes ripples throughout the team and ultimately results in a net loss of productivity, even if in the short term we appear to be gaining. Sure, we could rush out a release untested and this one bug would be fixed, but experience has shown us that other bugs are just as likely to have been introduced elsewhere. The only time it is safe to break our release cycle is if instead we delay the release. In this case we can create a branch and the devs will be able to safely continue into the next development cycle. I refer to this last point because I must confess that I misspoke earlier about releasing next week. We will be in the middle of an office move then(!). That kind of chaos is exactly what we don't need so the release will be the following Tuesday. I can't say how sorry I am that I misled you! Link to comment
jholly Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Thank you OpinioNate. Yes, I can relate, software management is a tricky and difficult business. And a release in the middle of a office move? Only a mad man would do that. Thanks for the feedback you have been giving and hope your new digs are nice. Perhaps I'll have to schedule a trip to see them. Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I don't need paleolith to lecture me on software developement. I've been doing this for 30+ years on several large projects. I will apologize to OpinioNate (and the Grounspeak development team) for implying that this bug isn't being fixed because it is seen as low priority. He had indicated several times that the nature of this fix requires it be done as part of a full release instead of as a hot fix. That may even indicate that a hot fix was considered and ruled out. On projects I've worked on and being involve in the change control process, defect reports usually have a severity assigned by the person opening the report. It indicates the impact that not fixing the bug has on this person's ability to get their job done using the system. The defect report is then assigned to an analyst who will look for the cause of the problem and make an estimate on what it would take to fix the problem. The analyst or a change control board will assign a priority for fixing the problem. Those problems given the highest priority will be assigned to a developer to fix and then to a tester to test. Finally the changes are incorporated into a new release. Priority is review from time to time so that low priority fixes can be bumped up so they don't remain bugs forever. From time to time, it has always been the case that management will decide that some bug fixes are so important that they require a hot fix or a patch to be delivered out of cycle. Paleolith is right that that this causes some problems in that a new branch be created against the latest release version to do this work. After the patch is tested and released, those changes have to be merged into the code that is being produced as part of the normal development process. We have tools that compare the changes in the hot fix/patch files to the mainline development files and often this merge can be done automatically, but sometimes a developer has to make additional changes so the fix will work with whatever other changes were being made. In any case the fix has be tested a second time to make sure that it still works. While there is some cost and while developers don't like having to drop what they are working on to make a hot fix, I don't think it is as bad a paleolith makes it out to be. My original comment was that we often see hot fixes done by Groundspeak. It is just that this isn't one of them. Link to comment
+hukilaulau Posted October 22, 2009 Share Posted October 22, 2009 I have never done any computer programming. I am like a native in a pacific island cargo cult, and Groundspeak is the airplane dropping cool stuff on me out of the sky. If they tell me it will be awhile before the next display of magic, I will say, "Great! Thanks a lot!" And no longwinded explanation of how airplanes and parachutes work and how they could have rerouted something to get me my stuff sooner would impress me very much. Nate, I think I speak for unsophisticated simpletons everywhere when I say, "Thanks for all your hard work, you make a cool game even more funner!" Link to comment
+succotash Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 I have never done any computer programming. I am like a native in a pacific island cargo cult, and Groundspeak is the airplane dropping cool stuff on me out of the sky. If they tell me it will be awhile before the next display of magic, I will say, "Great! Thanks a lot!" And no longwinded explanation of how airplanes and parachutes work and how they could have rerouted something to get me my stuff sooner would impress me very much. Nate, I think I speak for unsophisticated simpletons everywhere when I say, "Thanks for all your hard work, you make a cool game even more funner!" Me too. This temporary downtime has made me realize how much I do appreciate and rely on the bookmarks as "works in progress" for planning upcoming road trips, puzzles in progress, challenges in progress... Certainly there are workarounds but I'll be happy when the care package includes this fix! Thanks. Bean Link to comment
+Spiess Posted October 26, 2009 Share Posted October 26, 2009 I've tried to edit the listing of a cache that is in a bookmark, but the system returns an error. Anyone else experience this? I'm having the same issue, the only way to change a bookmark description is to remove the cache from the list and re-add it with the changed text description. According to the issues quidelines: OS: Win XP Pro (running on a actual machine) Browser: IE 8.0.6001 Link: My bookmark list: http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.a...d5-6c6b6849e8ca Link to comment
+GO West Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Bumping this thread up - I'm still getting errors when trying to edit bookmark listings. Anyone else? Link to comment
+bugleann Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Yes, I'm still having problems too. Everytime I try to edit, it gives me an error message and knocks me out of the geocaching website altogether. Link to comment
+rob3k Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Yes, I'm still having problems too. Everytime I try to edit, it gives me an error message and knocks me out of the geocaching website altogether. Unless something has changed this should be fixed when the next code release goes live. AFAIK that has not happened yet and I believe Opinionate's last post in this thread indicates they're hoping to release tomorrow. "I refer to this last point because I must confess that I misspoke earlier about releasing next week. We will be in the middle of an office move then(!). That kind of chaos is exactly what we don't need so the release will be the following Tuesday. I can't say how sorry I am that I misled you!" Posted on 10/21, so I think that would make tomorrow the aforementioned following Tuesday. Link to comment
+Okiebryan Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 I have never done any computer programming. I am like a native in a pacific island cargo cult, and Groundspeak is the airplane dropping cool stuff on me out of the sky. If they tell me it will be awhile before the next display of magic, I will say, "Great! Thanks a lot!" And no longwinded explanation of how airplanes and parachutes work and how they could have rerouted something to get me my stuff sooner would impress me very much. Nate, I think I speak for unsophisticated simpletons everywhere when I say, "Thanks for all your hard work, you make a cool game even more funner!" I'd like to nominate this post for "Post of the Year" Freaking brilliant! I love it! Reminds me of "The Gods Must Be Crazy" Link to comment
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