Boards

The five boards an item can run — discussions, feedback, bugs, roadmap and changelog — and what each one is actually for.

A mod, asset, server or community can run up to five boards of its own. Each is separately switchable, and each answers a question the others do not.

Board Answers
Discussions “Let’s talk about this”
Feedback “Please add / change this”
Bugs “This is broken”
Roadmap “What are you planning?”
Changelog “What changed?”

The site itself runs the same five at /discussions, /feedback, /bugs, /roadmap and /changelog, using the same models.

Discussions

A forum for the item. It has sections (categories of its own), threaded posts, and per-section access grants — so a section can be private, read-only, or moderated by specific people. See Permissions.

Feedback

Suggestions, with voting. This is where “please add dark mode” goes.

Bugs used to live here and no longer do

Defect reports were once a feedback type. They were separated because a report that needs steps to reproduce, a severity and a confirmed queue has nothing in common with a feature request that needs votes.

Bugs

The defect tracker: steps to reproduce, severity, a confirmation state, and replies.

A bug report can additionally name other items as places the issue was seen — which is different from the item’s own tracker. A bug filed against mod A that mentions mod B appears on A’s tracker and as a mention on B’s.

Roadmap

What is planned. A roadmap holds items; items hold tasks. Followers can be notified when it moves (notifyRoadmap, on by default).

An item can also have roadmap items attached to it without owning the whole roadmap, which is how a shared roadmap can track work across several mods.

Changelog

What shipped. Entries belong to an item and appear on its changelog tab.

An entry can also be linked to an item it does not belong to — listed under it without being its own. That is how a change to a shared library shows up on the changelogs of the things that depend on it.

Followers can be notified (notifyChangelogs, on by default).

Switching them on and off

Each board has its own config on the item, and the item’s tab configuration decides which optional tabs appear on the view page at all. A board with nothing in it and no config is simply absent rather than showing an empty tab.