How to Report a Problem

This page is a work in progress.

Introduction

The BOARD18 bugzilla application can be used to report problems and make enhancement requests for the BOARD18 application and for some associated play by email services. These are refered to collectively within bugzilla as the BOARD18 Product. The process of creating such a report/request is referred to as creating a bug report. Before you can use the BOARD18 bugzilla application to create a bug report you must first obtain a user ID for BOARD18 bugzilla. This page is a “how to” document which explains how you can obtain a bugzilla user ID and how you can then create a bug report.

Obtaining a User ID

Obtaining a bugzilla user ID is quite simple. First go to the bugzilla main page. Then click on the new account item at the top of the screen. Read the instructions on the new account screen and then enter an email address on this screen. You will be emailed instructions on how to complete this process.

Components

Bugzilla is set up to divide bugs into five components. Each bug report is assigned to one of these components. These five components are:

Client side The HTML and java script which executes on the user's browser.
Server side The PHP and MYSQL code that executes on an administrator's server.
Game Box Game Boxes for 18xx games that can be played via BOARD18.
GIMP Scripts Python scripts for GIMP used to create tiles and tokens.
Dream Sheets Fully instrumented spread sheets used in conjunction with BOARD18.