[Goober5000]

And as it turns out, the jitter may be able to be mitigated without changing the coordinates.  Stay tuned.

In other news, we have now fixed over 50 bugs since the 3.6.16 drive began.  Take a look at the cumulative bugs by date graph, attached -- including the 3.6.14 RC phase, this is now the longest sustained bugfixing campaign in the history of Mantis, eclipsing the one in early 2009.  We're now at 176 bugs and falling.

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[Nuke]

i get an access denied message on that link. i can still get into mantis though.

[Goober5000]

It might be admin-only.  I've attached the graph as an image.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Awesome, it looks like 3.6.16 might just have half the bugs of 3.6.14 [/shameless_simplification]

[Luis Dias]

Congratulations for the effort, it really is something to behold!

[SypheDMar]

Indeed. Commendations are in order!

[Dragon]

Congratulations. Keep it up.

[Goober5000]

I'm going to make an executive decision and say that only coders who begin fixing bugs before the bug counter hits 150 (it's currently at 161) and who fix at least two bugs will qualify for the offer of pizza and other goodies.  Otherwise we may end up with a situation where a bunch of people try to get in on the offer at the last minute once the counter gets down to 105 or so.

So, the list of people who qualify are as follows (and if I forgot a name, feel free to let me know and I'll check):

Goober5000
The_E
Valathil
niffiwan
CommanderDJ
Karajorma
jg18
MjnMixael (special case due to coordination)
Zacam (special case due to coordination)

[Goober5000]

The list of open tickets now stands at 156.  Here's the newest graph...

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[Dragon]

Awesome drop.

[mjn.mixael]

So, I did a count. Since the code freeze was announced on November 16, we have resolved or closed 124 bug reports. This leaves us with 128 still open. The last time we had fewer than 130 open tickets was sometime Q4-2006/Q1-2007. Hopefully this results in 3.6.16 being a very stable and reliable release.

[Trivial Psychic]

I think the team's also coming up on its 10000th commit. 

[Rodo]

You guys are chewing down bugs, good stuff.
What's the goal set to?

[headdie]

awesome work guys, 3.6.16 is looking to be a cracking one!

[Dragon]

Incredible. I hope you get those numbers down to single digits.

[mjn.mixael]

Incredible. I hope you get those numbers down to single digits.

That's not likely. Many of the remaining bugs are pilot file or red alert related. Generally, we are waiting to work on these until Ant8 hits trunk because it changes a lot of how that data is saved. (No reason to possibly fix them twice.) Also, there are a large number of multi related bugs, which are much harder to reproduce, confirm and fix efficiently. It would just take too much time. Though, we are always open to having more testers to help with that task!

[Luis Dias]

What's in store for Antipodes 8?

[The E]

The new pilot file code, which is a complete rewrite of the way player and campaign savefiles are handled that is easier to work with and much more resistant to things like playing mods with the same pilot file.

There's also some secondary effects there that allow the number of possible control bindings to increase.

[karajorma]

Also, there are a large number of multi related bugs, which are much harder to reproduce, confirm and fix efficiently.

Believe me, those are a complete ***** to reproduce. Just setting up two PCs to run FS2 via the debugger and getting them both to the point where they are both even in-game takes at least 5 minutes and I have to do that before I can even start trying to reproduce the bug (and it takes much longer if I have to build on both PCs).

If there's an easier way to debug network apps, I'd love to hear it.

[mjn.mixael]

Sounds like it's time to head to the multi forum and request a committed set of testers.