So, after submitting a few bugs, I’ve found:
a) I can’t find my own bugs in the bug tracker because:
- They have been given completely different titles than I gave them
- I don’t get any feedback email as to whether or not they get created (with a reference link)
b) When I can find my bugs, they have much worse descriptions than I gave them, missing a lot of the information I’d gathered and sometimes having outright errors in the details.
What is the point of properly testing around bugs, finding out as much information as possible and carefully detailing that information, if the bug tracking system just throws it away and replaces it with a less-informative and error-prone summary, without any link back to the original report?
Seriously, let us submit directly into the real bug tracker. If you are afraid of the engine developers being bogged down in excessive reports, then simply add a filter to hide the bugs until they have been verified - but keep the initial bug reports with their original descriptions (and allow the submitters to add more information.)
If the descriptions aren’t great, let the verifiers add to the description, but never remove the original one.
The current system is a joke.