Most of you probably haven't noticed this yet, because most of you don't bother to use the Tracker since it was quite broken - but Josh and I have put a little elbow grease into a new bug tracker idea to replace the old Bugspray system that broke after the last SMF update. We're happy to present it to you as a little Thanksgiving present. You can view it by clicking the Tracker link up top, as usual.
The new tracker utilizes the Github Issues system, and all old tickets will hopefully be migrated soon as well.
But wait, does this mean you'll need a github account to report a bug? And why do we bother to emulate it here, rather than just having a redirect?
No, that's where it gets clever! We've hooked up your forum/enigma-dev accounts to this system, so as long as you are logged in here, you can post or comment on issues without needing a github account. Technically, our old friend EnigmaBot posts on your behalf, but we try to keep that as transparent as possible so it doesn't look like every issue/comment was posted by EnigmaBot! One little quirk of this system is that posted issues created through the bot will have a [u###] in the title. This is just to help EnigmaBot to link your enigma-dev account.
If you do have a Github account, you may click on the link to Github and post/comment that way, if you'd prefer, or you can use our system and let EnigmaBot post on your behalf. When viewing issues here, anything posted by a github user will have their username italicized, and will link to their github profile; enigma-dev users will appear non-italicized, and will link to their enigma-dev profile. In the future, we may invest in linking accounts — ie, your ENIGMA account will keep track of the name of your GitHub account if you can prove your ownership thereof. In the meantime, you'll just have to put up with some issues and comments being from GitHub while others are from the forums.
Josh writes:
On a separate note, I cleaned up the forums a bit. You'll find the avatars section in your profile offers a default set of avatars again. If you don't have an avatar set, I encourage you to pick one as it makes skimming the forum and identifying people easier. Do not be surprised if I start assigning octocat to people.
Now, on to parser progress.
The "basics" are "working." This includes correct lexing around comments, macros, etc, which means that anything that works in C++ works in ENIGMA. However, I want far more than that, and so I've begun a specification page for features of EDL beyond those of GML. You can find the page on the wiki
here.
Moreover, I am going to be maintaining an information page regarding adding export languages to ENIGMA. That page can be found
here.
If there is anything you would like to see in ENIGMA which is not covered on that Wiki page,
post about it here. I am in the process of adding some of my bullet points from the proposals board.
Hope those of you who had Thanksgiving celebrations enjoyed yourselves.
