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its a basic need even in beta testing
Well... have you done much beta testing of XOOPS? Unfortunately, not many people have and when they do, they rarely do it very thoroughly.
However, WHEN you hit a bug, there are several things you can do:
1) Sit back, do nothing, complain if the bug has not been fixed after some weeks - or when a new version is out, complain that this bug that has been around for ages is still not fixed.
2) Say "I have this problem. Fix it". Become angry when noone rushes to your aid
3) Report the bug, then wait for a fix
4) Report the bug, reproduce it, give extra information that could be relevevant such as server platform. Also reproduce the bug with MySQL debug and PHP Debug and perhaps figure out, in which cases it does NOT happen.
Shalommemphi, you are in group 3) and although I am happy you are not in group 1) or 2), you can be of so much more help with just a little extra effort. Of course, I don't expect you to be able to jump in and fix core bugs right after installing XOOPS, but the more information you can give, the faster I can fix it and the sooner you can get the fix out. If I have to investigate everything about the bug, it takes me longer to fix it.
I'm going home from work now. Will look at this bug when I get home.