Subj : Testing
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jun 01 2018 04:01 pm

  Re: Testing
  By: Richard Menedetter to Digital Man on Fri Jun 01 2018 10:12 am

 > Hi Digital!
 >
 > 28 May 2018 21:06, from Digital Man -> Richard Menedetter:
 >
 >  >> Has it be determined if it was a bug in the software or in the
 >  >> configuration?
 >  DM> You could call it a bug in the software (SBBSecho). It's been fixed.
 >
 > What else should one call it??

A flaw, an over-sight, a lack of detailed requirements definition.

 > Anyways glad that it is fixed.
 > Hope the fix will be rolled out quickly, and that SBBS improves their
 > testing rigorously in order to stop such huge bugs in the future.

It's open source software and freely available to everyone, immediately upon
check-in. There's no "rolling out" to be done. The last official relase of
"SBBS" was in 2015 included a version of SBBSecho that did not support
rescan-via-AreaFix, so the feature (and thus the bug) was not present.
However, most Synchronet sysops run development builds at their discretion for
testing purposes, very much in-line with the "experimental" nature of this
network.

"SBBS" is not an organization or a person, so SBBS can't test anything. You may
classify the addition of an origin line to re-scanned messages as a "huge bug",
but it's been present in the development builds of SBBSecho since August 3 of
2016 and no one has reported the problem until this recent event. For such a
"huge bug" it certainly didn't seem to impact very many sysops or users.

                                            digital man

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