Example for a bug report on ikiwiki.info:

The ability to quite literally feel magnetic fields? …. to find out how “live” a circuit really is just by running a finger over insulated wires?


To determine if this bug effected the main ikiwiki site (which it doesn't) I saved an early version of the report to the ikiwiki wiki and then, armed with the additional information, went back to writing a (hopefully) understandable report. However when I saved the updated page I got an error saying that someone else had made changes to the page while I had been re-editing the page! A quick investigation showed that in the few minutes it had taken me to update the page, the developer had seen me save the first version and updated the page to say that it seemed to be working on the main site (which would obviously make it difficut do debug).

I love open source.

adam [shand.net] 1m19s ago diff bugs/Fancy characters get munged on page save web
sorry link changed.
adam [shand.net] 3m51s ago diff bugs/Fancy characters get munged on page save web
joey 9m23s ago diff bugs/Fancy characters get munged on page save svn
response
adam [shand.net] 15m29s ago diff bugs/Fancy characters get munged on page save web

And then, to make it even better, I get an answer a few minutes after that. Fabulous!

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