Talk:Bug reports

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It's unlikely you'll ever find a bug on WWR but if you do, rest assured this man will fix it immediately!

Purpose

This is a page where you can report or discuss various bugs in the Whole Wheat Radio software. Note that I will use this as a resource when I sit down to program. Do not expect any immediate action on any of these items. Please be as specific and clear as possible (when needed) and if you can take a screen-snapshot of weird behavior, please provide one. Thanks.

See also: Feature Requests

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'Artists From' Code

They may be issues with the Artists from code. I looked at playing a show using the Artists from Wales tag, not that I'm usually this patriotic :), but it only shows one artist (Andrew Allen). I checked Catrin Finch to see if she had the relevant 'Lives in Wales' tag and she has but isn't showing up on the page.

Big Tom (talk/contribs) 02:29, August 9, 2008 (AKDT)

This is a known problems with Artist pages "dropping" categories. I don't think the reason it happens is known, but when Jim is here he can "kick" the artist pages to get the categories to save. Kelli (talk/contribs) 05:43, August 9, 2008 (AKDT)

AWAITING CODE: wwr_song_keywords_link

In case you don't see Firewalk's comment in chat, wwr_song_keywords_link isn't always working. Not every song page has 4 sections. Kelli (talk) 14:08, May 8, 2008 (AKDT)

I did see the comment and think I responded. (Nice to be able to go back to various days of chat or do a Search and be able to find it even though I'm not going to bother on this one.) I suspect it will be dealt with when we convert to a new standard song page format like the artist's page. I tried to find a quick fix to make it go to a particular section by name rather than by number (it defaults to section 4 for Tags and if there are more or less than 3 == sections == before it, it will screw up) but didn't find anything. Jimbob (talk) 08:16, May 11, 2008 (AKDT)

BTW, this problem will remain (from a programming standpoint anyway) until the Song: pages are all treated like the Artist: pages. I don't know when that will happen but I know I need 2-4 solid days of clear time to do it. The code will probably only take a few hours to write, but the effects of a screwup will be systemwide and I need to be able to completely devote my life to responding to any problems. Based on my personal schedule and house concerts, I don't anticipate being able to code big blocks again until mid-late September. Jim (talk/contribs) 13:03, July 13, 2008 (AKDT)

Would you consider just opening the page in edit mode instead of going to a specific section? I'd like users to think about the other sections on the song page instead of putting everything in tag form. I understand if it's too confusing though. Also, do you know if the "dropping category" problem on artist pages is related to the standardization? If so, should we re-consider modifying the song pages? Kelli (talk/contribs) 12:34, August 30, 2008 (AKDT)

NOT RESOLVED Artist bios

An extra period was put in the bio sections of artist pages. (I don't think this is a big deal that a bot needs to fix, but wanted to mention it in case it can be fixed for future artist pages.) Kelli (talk) 11:30, May 13, 2008 (AKDT)

Yeah, I saw that. Let's call it a 'feature' for the time being. Shows which bios a person may have updated. ... I'll leave this on the list and do it some late night when I'm looking for a very easy project. Jim (talk/contribs) 13:17, July 13, 2008 (AKDT)

NOTED: Tags only include

Tags only include in shows only works with one tag not multiple tags. Kelli (talk) 11:29, June 7, 2008 (AKDT)

Don't hold your breath on this one. I think it's difficult. But it might not be. I'll do it some night when I've got a few hours to work on it. The reason is that the mysql database query is built "condition by condition" and can now become quite long i.e. SELECT * FROM songs WHERE x=y AND z=c AND (z=b OR (z=c AND x=b) AND d=y) blah blah blah so it takes me awhile to code and debug. Good suggestion though. Jim (talk/contribs) 13:17, July 13, 2008 (AKDT)

NOTED: Tags on Artist Pages

Not really a bug, but if we start putting more tags on album and artist pages we should be able to use multiple tags in shows (like we can for song pages). Community News where you talk about this. Kelli (talk/contribs) 10:10, July 14, 2008 (AKDT)

Spent several hours studying the possibilities. It's going to be a code solution i.e. mySQL can't query the data to get what we want (or I don't know mySQL well enough to make it do it). It's on my high-priority list. Jim (talk/contribs) 19:54, July 15, 2008 (AKDT)

CONFIRMED - NEEDS DESIGN CHANGE - User Show Favs

I think I fixed it. It's nasty. Related to user names with blanks in them i.e. "Rez Dog" (which would pick DogNuts favs) or "Lil Deb" which would pick anything. The code is hacked up quite a bit so I can't guarantee anything. It needs to be re-written to be more sophisticated in parsing the free-form "x by so_and_so AND so_and_so OR so_and_so" but the patched version might work for now.

I put the users who've given 5 stars as part of show output in the OVERALL RANKING column to further debug. That can be removed if it's too cluttered or, if people like it, keep it in.

Kelli - you have special debug code showing (I will turn that off at anytime if it looks like the problem is fixed) so that if you catch it again, a screenshot will show me what I need to see. Thanks for those screenshots - they really are invaluable.

GREAT BUG SNIFFING OUT AND REPORTING DOCTORDOUG!

UPDATE:

Okay, on a different problem, THE LAST SHOW THAT IS BUILT OVER-WRITES ALL PREVIOUS SHOWS AND IS THE ONE THAT WILL PLAY IF THE SUBMIT BUTTON IS HIT ON ANY PAGE. There is only one record per user that saves whatever the last show built is. If you load another page in a tab that builds a show, it wipes out the previous tab's show.

I definitely can't fix this one before leaving on vacation. I'll look into a design change after I get back. It would somehow have to allow a user to build multiple shows and then the SUBMIT button is tied to the correct record for that page. It would also have to do maintenance regularly to clean out all the shows that would be built but never actually requested. Ugh.

Jim (talk/contribs) 09:41, July 25, 2008 (AKDT)

Jim (talk/contribs) 08:35, July 25, 2008 (AKDT)

Doctordoug noticed a problem with the favorites show located on user pages. Not all of the songs that get requested are actually favorites of that user. I've attached a screen shot example. Image:FavoritesShow.gif Kelli (talk/contribs)

I am thinking it could possibly be a browser session issue,... in that both times I noticed it,... I had open a new tab with each users page on it. Doctordoug (talk/contribs) 06:02, July 25, 2008 (AKDT)

I am running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

I had "What's playing" in one tab,... I had Chat:2008/07/25 in the next tab. I used the "press the mouse wheel to open a new tab" thing to open three new tabs by clicking on listener list items on the "What's playing" page. So now I have three lister tabs (A1l3n, CubDriver, and Rubenerd) I went to the Al13n and requested the three song set that was shown there. What went into the queue was the three songs that were on Rubenerd's page. Then I went to Cubs page and requested the three songs shown there. The three songs that were put into the queue had no visiblilty to me from any of the windows. I believe they were the next three songs in A1l3n's favorites queue based on the fact that they had all been rated 5 stars by A1l3n. I then refreshed the A1l3n tab and requested three songs. Based on the fact that Cub had rated all of these three songs 5 stars,.. I think they got pulled from his queue. After having thrown all these tunes into the queue I am laying low. I still believe this is more of a browsser tab thing than a bug in WWR. Later I will prolly try a similar thing but open the user pages in new windows instead of tabs. If that works OK I will just use that method in the future. Doctordoug (talk/contribs) 07:00, July 25, 2008 (AKDT)

Deleting artist images

It appears that artist images and bio images are "unlinked" from artist pages in the same way categories (like location) are. These images are in a category but they may be getting removed anyway. It would probably be best to not delete "unused" images until this is resolved. See Chat:2008/08/05/Tuesday for more discussion. Kelli (talk/contribs) 07:09, August 5, 2008 (AKDT) Update, you might check out Dognut and Kazoo's talk pages or more comments on this. I have not been able to confirm it with an example. Kelli (talk/contribs) 05:43, August 9, 2008 (AKDT)

Today's artist photo punctuation problem

(As displayed on What's playing) The new @@ format does not work for artist photos with a special character, such as Steppin'_In_It Kelli (talk) 05:58, May 22, 2008 (AKDT)

Fixed sorta. Made it work with apostrophe ... might need more tweaks later. Thanks. Jim Kloss (talk) 07:51, May 30, 2008 (AKDT)

Needs to also work for periods. Image:Robert A. Wagner Minus The Little Wretches.gif Kelli (talk) 07:30, June 1, 2008 (AKDT)

It would work with him if he was still in the library. Here's one that shows the period now works:

This seems to be broken again. See and . Kelli (talk/contribs) 07:30, August 13, 2008 (AKDT)

Periods seem to be working again. A couple of emoticons that have the same problem are Image:Colon.gif( and Image:Colon.gif-x. These can be renamed, just giving them as examples. Kelli (talk/contribs) 14:05, August 29, 2008 (AKDT)