On Scripting News I always put the singular items ahead of the titled items. #
It's hard on the readers if you don't do it this way, because the singular items that follow a titled item appear to be part of the titled item. The delineation isn't easy to spot. It's possible that there's a visual way to keep them sorted out, but I don't know what it is. So I put all the singular items first. #
Scott Hanson reports on a problem that was reported last night by Alex Johnstone. #
And a similar issue reported this morning by @ambiprospect. (No name on his profile page.)#
The must be a reason these are all showing up now, but I can't think of why. Maybe when we figure out what it is, it'll be apparent. But there have been zero changes in anything core in Drummer in the last week. I consider the software stable, so I don't want to screw around with that, esp when the rollout is going so well. #
Reproducible steps are going to be the key to solving this. I will be taking a look at the source code based on the reports and seeing if that helps to understand where there might be a problem. #
We've had problems like this with Drummer in development.#
When we catch a problem in the software, before we can fix it we need to be able to reproduce it. #
We're looking at what might be a serious problem in the tabs in Drummer, I'll have more on it shortly, but in this case as in all serious testing work, the reproducible steps are the only way you can get a problem fixed with any certainty. #
On Scripting News I always put the singular items ahead of the titled items. #
It's hard on the readers if you don't do it this way, because the singular items that follow a titled item appear to be part of the titled item. The delineation isn't easy to spot. It's possible that there's a visual way to keep them sorted out, but I don't know what it is. So I put all the singular items first. #
Scott Hanson reports on a problem that was reported last night by Alex Johnstone. #
And a similar issue reported this morning by @ambiprospect. (No name on his profile page.)#
The must be a reason these are all showing up now, but I can't think of why. Maybe when we figure out what it is, it'll be apparent. But there have been zero changes in anything core in Drummer in the last week. I consider the software stable, so I don't want to screw around with that, esp when the rollout is going so well. #
Reproducible steps are going to be the key to solving this. I will be taking a look at the source code based on the reports and seeing if that helps to understand where there might be a problem. #
We've had problems like this with Drummer in development.#
When we catch a problem in the software, before we can fix it we need to be able to reproduce it. #
We're looking at what might be a serious problem in the tabs in Drummer, I'll have more on it shortly, but in this case as in all serious testing work, the reproducible steps are the only way you can get a problem fixed with any certainty. #
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