About This Document

This document, originally by UnderFlow, is licensed under the GNU General Public License.

Why Does Forge Use a Bug Tracker?

There is now a bug tracker for Forge. In the past, we used the forum to report bugs, but this had a couple of bad side effects. First, some of the topics grew quite large. Second, sometimes a bug would not get the attention of a developer, and would not be addressed.

The bug tracker, Mantis, provides a clean way to comment on bugs, it reduces the number of duplicated bug reports, and it makes it difficult for developers to ignore both new and old bug reports.

Tutorial

1. Open Mantis for Forge at [1].
2. Get a Googlemail account if you don't have one already.
3. Search for existing open issues with key words from your bug report (e.g. "Sphinx-Bone Wand"). If an issue describing your bug does already exist, you can provide additional information in its comment section.
4. Post your issue by clicking on "new issue". You will receive a template that you can fill out. Under "version", write the release date of the beta (e.g. "BETA 06/12/2011") or the revision you used to compile your Forge version if you use the SVN (e.g. "Revision 9875"; command: "./svn.exe info forge-svn").

If there are news regarding your issue, you will automatically be notified via your Googlemail address.