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 the View Issues page in Mantis.
2. Below the first, upper, gray and periwinkle table, on the left side, you should see a Search box. Type one or two key words for the bug you have found into that box. For example, if you think you found a bug involving Sphinx-Bone Wand, you may try "sphinx" "wand" or just "wand" (either with or without the quotes).
3. Click the Apply Filter button, which is either to the right of or just below the Search box.
4. After the page loads, you should see a second table titled Viewing Issues below the Search box.

No Matching Issues

1. If the second table shows Viewing Issues (0 - 0 / 0), your search did not match any open issues. Try searching with different key words, perhaps using words that describe the card, rather than the card itself. For Sphinx-Bone Wand, you might want to search for "charge" "counter".

1. If you still get no matching issues, then you should [[#File a New Bug Report|File a New Bug Report].

1. 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.

1. 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.