Issues

This article contains help topics for the MCT issues interface.

General usage

The issues interface is like a forum, you can create threads (issues) and add posts (comments) to it. And you can write into one or more categories (labels).

Search duplicates

The issues interface does not offer a real search function and search engines do not create an index of the issues pages.

But if you want to reduce the probability for a duplicate, you can perform several actions:

• click on a finished milestone to add a milestone filter and to open all closed issues from the milestone
• or click on "n Closed" to show all closed issues
• additionally you can select the label "idea" to get all closed ideas
• additionally you can use a milestone filter here too

The probability to find a duplicate of your issue idea in closed issues by using filters is much higher and more easy than to search in all existing issues.

Or search for issue titles with one or more word you want to use in the newest, open issues. Maybe another open issue is about the same topic.

References

If you want to refer to another issue, simply paste the URL of the issue inside the new issue. A link in each issue will be generated.

Labels

You can set one or more labels for an issue:

• extensions: Issue extends an existing game content / idea mainly
• idea: Issue contains a completely new idea
• announcement: Issue about something important happened
• bug: Issue about an error in the game or in a concept
• duplicate: Issue exists already, e.g. with a slightly different wording
• enhancement: Issue enhances some aspects of an existing idea / issue mainly
• invalid: Issue can not be implemented in the game or in a concept, because it has e.g. a bug
• question: Issue contains a question e.g. about a game aspect
• wontfix: Issue related to a bug which is not important, because e.g. a development in the future will make the issue obsolete

Assignments

You can assign the issue to a contributor of the game. But the project is maintained by MKelm only yet.
You can ignore this function, if you want.

Milestones

All issues can be part of a milestone.
Some types of milestones are available:

• Concept milestones
• Story milestones
• User interface milestones
• Alpha version milestones
• Beta version milestones
• Final version milestones

Version milestones can be mixed with other milestone types. If you are not sure which milestone to select, ignore this function.