Bug Reports

There is a new method of bug reporting in town. Basically, I got sick of people e-mailing me directly with problems. Now the OTS uses something called the Bug Reporting and Tracking Service to handle bug reports. I always intended to get around to coding this, but didn't get to it until this week.

It's fairly straightforward. Instead of bothering with logins I just created a password protected directory to allow "admin" access. And each user can create a "bug password," which is stored in plaintext, to limit who can respond to the bug.

The real point of this new Service is to test some of the FrameWorks components. It uses DB2, Parser1.2, and RSSFeed1.1 to generate RSS feeds tracking the progress of each bug or to see the latest bugs—which I'm using to keep track of people submitting them. So far, the new components seem to be performing admirably.