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posted by NCommander on Thursday April 10 2014, @05:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the if-we-accidently-implemented-something-we-promised-is-it-still-a-bug? dept.
I'm pleased to announce that moderate then post has now been implemented. In truth, its been implemented since the last major update due to a bug. Before releasing slashcode 14.04, I was experimenting with moderate^post code on dev, and the code was merged in with the basis that it would be enabled as part of the moderation reworks. Theoretically, this code should have been disabled. In actuality, I skewed a variable; the global that controls this functionality was not 100% properly implemented.

mrcoolbp noticed the bug today, and seeing as we needed a code change either way to properly fix it, I decided to roll this bit of the moderation rework out early. I'm not thrilled on squishing two bugs in production on the same day, and I'm going to be working with the dev team to get a rigorous QA plan put together (which will be posted here) before we do any more major updates to the site.

Until then, enjoy the new functionality.

NCommander adds: I'm giving this a one time bump on the main index as it was posted very late for US based users. We *really really* need a featured story feature.
 
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  • (Score: 2) by bugamn on Thursday April 10 2014, @02:59PM

    by bugamn (1017) on Thursday April 10 2014, @02:59PM (#29474)

    I feel dirty posting in a discussion that I have just modded, but I think it is worth to make give this topic more attention. The notification box must be modified, new users won't know about this topic.

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  • (Score: 1) by paulej72 on Thursday April 10 2014, @07:55PM

    by paulej72 (58) on Thursday April 10 2014, @07:55PM (#29674) Journal

    As this fix was not supposed to go live yet the documentation was not updated to match the new situation. We will be updating this at our next scheduled slash release. We really do not like pushing out updates to production without testing them fully on our other servers first. And even when we test them we still miss stuff. :(

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    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday April 11 2014, @02:12AM

      by Reziac (2489) on Friday April 11 2014, @02:12AM (#29802) Homepage

      Your thoroughness is appreciated.

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      And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
    • (Score: 2) by bugamn on Friday April 11 2014, @02:25PM

      by bugamn (1017) on Friday April 11 2014, @02:25PM (#30062)

      Don't worry too much, I am sure you are doing a great work. :)