Quote:Issues like this get unnoticed for hundreds of revisions and even more obvious ones are reported half a year after the regression gets introduced. Makes me wonder if people test new stuff at all or if they just cannot be bothered to report bugs anymore..
Regression testing involves a lot of work. Most dolphin users just want to play their games and don't bother with this. A significant portion of the ones who would be willing to test aren't active in the community and aren't aware of the changes that currently need testing or how to properly test them (what to look for). Not to mention that there are so many different games and settings that you're bound to miss something no matter how rigorously you test new changes.
Recently the devs (including you) have started posting testing threads to raise forum awareness of changes being made. This is a step in the right direction but didn't happen until recently and is only done for what are perceived as the most important changes. In an ideal world all devs would do this with their changes. Making forum posts, blog posts on the main site, and alerts on googlecode to make their changes noticed by as many parts of the community as possible. Let's face it most users don't constantly check googlecode for new branches. It would be amazing if we could integrate this into the application somehow. It would make it stupid easy and extremely accessible. Perhaps have a button that opens a pop up window that lists branches that are currently flagged as needing testing, has a description from the author of the branch about what it does and what to look for when testing, and allows the user to auto-download that build and integrate their current config files, gameconfig files, savestates, GC memory cards, and Wii NAND by clicking on it in the menu.
I'll test some of this stuff if someone is willing to make a thread describing the issue and posting a save that allows me to access the area in question.
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-Ron Swanson
"I shall be a good politician, even if it kills me. Or if it kills anyone else for that matter. "
-Mark Antony