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Title: Cleaning up this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on February 18, 2011, 04:50:56 PM
SMF 1.1 and SMF 2.0 are stable and all of the development efforts are focused on SMF 2.1. SMF 1.1 and SMF 2.0 are still, however, getting security fixes, and there are many bugs which have yet to be fixed.

This board has a lot of bugs that need to be confirmed, tracked, or moved to the fixed/closed board (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=37). Please help us in checking these bugs out, especially the ones concerning SMF 2.1.

If the bug still exists but is not found on the issue tracker (GitHub) (https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/issues), please ask a team member to track it if you are not comfortable with using GitHub. Otherwise, you can move issues to GitHub by yourself.  If you're unsure please leave the bug topic alone and let someone else look in to it. Littering the board with requests for help will not assist anyone.

- Confirmed bugs that are logged on GitHub should be marked with a thumbs up icon.
- Resolved bugs or bugs with an approved pull request on GitHub can be marked as solved.
- Non-bugs should be marked with a thumbs down icon if it's not a bug, or moved to Next SMF Discussion (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=228.0) if it's not a bug but should have a follow up.

Eventually, non-bugs or fixed bugs will be moved to Fixed or Bogus Bugs (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=37.0).
Preferably, remember to report bugs on GitHub first.

Thank you all so much for your help.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: NanoSector on February 18, 2011, 04:57:02 PM
Maybe it is also a good idea to clean up all of the locked topics when we are done?
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on February 18, 2011, 04:59:13 PM
I was moving the "moved:" topics when I noticed a search bug. I'm leaving them there for now to confirm the bug. After I can target the source of the bug I'll remove them. I usually leave the "moved:" topics for 7 days or whenever I get to them so authors know that their bugs have been moved. On some of the much older ones, I just move them without a move topic.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: NanoSector on February 18, 2011, 05:04:16 PM
Quote from: Joshua Dickerson on February 18, 2011, 04:59:13 PM
I was moving the "moved:" topics when I noticed a search bug. I'm leaving them there for now to confirm the bug. After I can target the source of the bug I'll remove them. I usually leave the "moved:" topics for 7 days or whenever I get to them so authors know that their bugs have been moved. On some of the much older ones, I just move them without a move topic.
Mmkay. What is that "search bug"?
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on February 18, 2011, 05:05:51 PM
It isn't major and this is getting OT, but it is currently showing the recycle board topics included in the search results.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: naikvarda on April 25, 2011, 01:12:07 AM
What is bugtracker and how it will work? Please explain it.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on April 26, 2011, 06:40:45 PM
Click the bug tracker link in the original post.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on May 01, 2011, 03:00:30 PM
Without bumping all the topics (if you prefer so let me know), here it is a list of what I've found.

These that are still valid:
If someone already knows if they are tracked in mantis I would not bother to search... :P

And these that seems to be fixed or not bugs:
Could anyone confirm all these topics can be moved away? :)
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Illori on May 02, 2011, 06:37:52 AM
Quote from: emanuele on May 01, 2011, 03:00:30 PM
  • Substring problems in Greek language (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=412089.0) => seems fine here with greek...

out of your list to verify this one seems to be the only that i can verify still exists, it works fine in greek, but does not work in greek-utf8

I tested a few other languages, dutch-uft8 and turkish-utf8, looks like turkish-utf8 has this issue as well but only for the character for wednesday in the mini calendar on the left side.

also tested with russian-utf8, this issue seems to be able to be duplicated with any language that does not use the a-z alphabet for the first letter of each day of the week. I will bump that topic with further information.[/list]
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on May 02, 2011, 07:34:58 AM
I'm not good at all with char encoding... ::)

Ah, I forgot to say that I did the tests on RC5. ;)
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Masterd on May 05, 2011, 04:32:29 AM
When you will clean all those "MOVED" topics?
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Illori on May 05, 2011, 05:46:10 AM
the moved topics dont get cleaned up from any board they are there for a reason.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Arantor on May 05, 2011, 05:48:53 AM
They get removed from this board periodically, and have done for quite a while, usually a month or so after they were moved.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on May 05, 2011, 09:20:16 AM
Illori, I usually keep them around for a week to a month and remove them after that since they add a lot of clutter.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: live627 on May 28, 2011, 09:10:31 PM
It's not easy to check these reports against their related issue in Mantis if half or more are private :P
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Norv on May 29, 2011, 04:22:01 AM
Quote from: live627 on May 28, 2011, 09:10:31 PM
It's not easy to check these reports against their related issue in Mantis if half or more are private :P

There is no "half of them". Most of the tracked issues and tracked features/plans are publicly visible, currently.

I have made the 2.1 project publicly accessible months ago. That means SMF 1.1, SMF 2.0, SMF Tools and SMF 2.1 are publicly accessible projects in the tracker.

I believe there is a "Saguaro" project that isn't public - yet. It is more in the future, though, and it basically tracks features or enhancements or revamps proposed for the (farther) future.

In any case, its accessibility will change after 2.0 final, along with many other things to open SMF development to the community, including planning/roadmaps for any versions.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: live627 on May 29, 2011, 05:38:42 PM
QuoteI believe there is a "Saguaro" project that isn't public
Maybe that's what I was hitting?
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on October 09, 2011, 01:38:08 PM
There are still hundreds of untracked bugs. Please help us by confirming or denying that they still exist in the current stable version (on unmodded forums).
Title: [statistics time] Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on October 11, 2011, 03:03:10 PM
I like numbers, so just for fun I'm fixing these figures. :)

Total topics in the board: 421
Redirects: 43
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 57

15.2 % of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on October 11, 2011, 08:12:47 PM
You counted all of them? lol, that seems like a lot of work. It would definitely be cool to have these numbers up-to-date. Thanks :D
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on October 15, 2011, 04:48:25 AM
I've counted those with the issue in the topic subject... :P
I'll try to redo it every month or so.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Bet99ty00 on November 03, 2011, 10:26:51 PM
Maybe it is also a good idea to clean up all of the locked topics when we are done?

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Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on November 03, 2011, 11:44:05 PM
They tend to get cleaned up after 7 days. Just requires a moderator to notice.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on November 11, 2011, 03:18:32 PM
Quote from: emanuele on October 11, 2011, 03:03:10 PM
Total topics in the board: 421
Redirects: 43
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 57

15.2 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

One month later:
Total topics in the board: 407
Redirects: 15
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 58

14.9 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.



* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: live627 on November 11, 2011, 04:58:21 PM
Nice!
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on November 13, 2011, 11:56:24 AM
Quote from: emanuele on November 11, 2011, 03:18:32 PM
Quote from: emanuele on October 11, 2011, 03:03:10 PM
Total topics in the board: 421
Redirects: 43
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 57

15.2 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

One month later:
Total topics in the board: 407
Redirects: 15
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 58

14.9 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.



* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Hopefully after all of the work I did between yesterday and today, those numbers should be radically different.

I think we should set a goal that all bugs will be triaged within 10 days.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on November 13, 2011, 05:54:35 PM
Quote from: emanuele on November 11, 2011, 03:18:32 PM
Quote from: emanuele on October 11, 2011, 03:03:10 PM
Total topics in the board: 421
Redirects: 43
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 57

15.2 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

One month later:
Total topics in the board: 407
Redirects: 15
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 58

14.9 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.
Two days (of hard work by Joshua) later:
Total topics in the board: 408
Redirects: 37
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 77

20.9 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.



* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.



Quote from: Joshua Dickerson on November 13, 2011, 11:56:24 AM
I think we should set a goal that all bugs will be triaged within 10 days.
/me likes the idea. :)
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on November 14, 2011, 12:26:19 AM
We should have something to more easily track these numbers by Tuesday. Maybe even a page to help people work on triaging.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Joshua Dickerson on November 20, 2011, 01:31:26 PM
Not to steal emanuele's thunder but with the help of Illori, emanuele, and several others, we are working these numbers down:

total: 375
untracked: 194
tracked: 89
locked (moved): 92

Once the moved topics get removed, that will put us under 300 topics in this board. We still have a long way to go with triaging and tracking the bugs but we're getting better. Please help us by going back and checking these bugs though!
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on January 05, 2012, 01:21:18 PM
Total topics in the board: 310
Redirects: 24
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 105

37.0 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

50% is not so far! :P




* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on March 08, 2012, 10:47:59 AM
Total topics in the board: 286
Redirects: 16
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 87

32.5 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

50% is a bit more far! :P




* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on April 30, 2012, 12:46:43 PM
Total topics in the board: 287
Redirects: 34
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 79

31.5 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

meh...I'm moving too many closed tickets... :P
At least the number of untracked is decreasing too (181 last time, 172 now).




* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on June 28, 2012, 11:25:57 AM
Total topics in the board: 270
Redirects: 31
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 60

25.3 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

The number of tracked bugs is decreasing a lot...bad.
But it's nice that the number of "open" topics is now at 237 (from 376 of 8 months ago), that means we are finally at less than 10 pages!! YAY! :D (of course there is still a lot to do... :()



* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on August 17, 2012, 06:31:46 AM
Total topics in the board: 263
Redirects: 19
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 58

24.0 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

Not a lot of improvement this time. No problem, we have time! :P



* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on August 20, 2012, 04:33:06 AM
Total topics in the board: 265
Redirects: 50
Stickies: 2
Tracked: 52

24.4 %* of the reported bugs are confirmed and tracked.

And with the help of Trekkie we are now down to (as soon as the redirects will be cleaned out) 213 active topics! :D
The next milestone (200 topics) is now pretty close!
Thanks Trekkie!



* calculated removing the redirects and the sticky from the total number to topics.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: NanoSector on August 20, 2012, 05:35:52 AM
Awesome :D

If I can help out, in some ways, then I'll be glad to do so :)
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: emanuele on August 20, 2012, 08:16:00 AM
Feel free!

The things to do are always the same:
1) verify the bug is still valid in the latest development version (and to do that consider that many bugs are not described very well and people may intend something different than what you think so you have to apply a bit of "creativity" lol to the bug reports)
2a) if the bug is confirmed, mark it so (icon: thumb-up) and if the procedure to replicate it is not well described, write it down (again) in a bullet points list
2b) if the bug is no more a bug or if it has been fixed move the topic to the fixed or bogus board
2c) in case of doubts write down considerations or opinions (but maybe not for all otherwise it will become a mess :P)

Anyone can help and any help is highly appreciated!! (Even more if accompanied by patches :P)

A more detailed consideration, at that point I have in mind three categories:
1) bug that shall be fixed for 2.1 (for example those related to paid subscriptions),
2) bugs that "could be" fixed for 2.1 (for example those more close to a feature request than a bug),
3) bugs that should be fixed in later releases (for example anything related to parse_bbc).
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Trekkie101 on August 22, 2012, 12:59:10 PM
211 actual topics, the rest are redirects.

11 to go :P
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Ninja ZX-10RR on August 03, 2015, 09:25:12 PM
*bump* There are 5 pages of topics, starting with 2012 dates. This board needs cleanup again.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: live627 on August 03, 2015, 09:41:50 PM
Hey man,  thanks for volunteering.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Ninja ZX-10RR on August 03, 2015, 09:45:43 PM
Lol I don't think I'll ever have (nor I want it) the permission to do what you can do (in fact, I can barely post) ;) I merely let you know :)
As for volunteering... Did a long while ago, still got nearly 2000 posts. I also volunteer on SP.net, for that matters.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: live627 on August 03, 2015, 10:12:25 PM
Heh, I didn't have anything special in mind, just cross checking things and noting which topics can be moved.

And my last comment was  trolling. I sometimes troll people irl who make hints, too.
Title: Re: Cleanup this board
Post by: Ninja ZX-10RR on August 03, 2015, 10:41:58 PM
I know, I was feeding the troll with more trolling :P Thanks, actually :) I didn't want to be pedantic, but it's to prevent things like these: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=534001.msg3827852#msg3827852 and that would give all of you even more work, as you'd have to 1) reply 2) move the topic, so twice as much. As such, it's in your own interest to clean up the whole thing ;D
Title: Re: Cleaning up this board
Post by: Gwenwyfar on July 28, 2018, 03:01:54 PM
Many old bug reports have been moved to Fixed or Bogus bugs. Some have been moved due to being unconfirmed with not enough information. If any of them are still an issue please open a new topic. Thanks :)