QualityCentral is Borland’s bug-reporting service. QualityCentral is also the place to request new features. You can sign up to receive e-mail notifications whenever a QC report changes. The notifications can come individually or in daily digest form.
If you find what you think is a bug in Delphi—or any of Borland’s other products—then fire up QualityCentral and report it. If you do not report it, then the bug might never get fixed. (Even if you do report it, it still might not get fixed, but there is no chance of Borland fixing a bug it doesn’t know about.) Before you post a report, search the past submissions in case someone else already reported the same thing.
There are a few things you can do with reports on QualityCentral:
- Comment
- You can add comments to any report, perhaps to provide additional information that Borland can use to reproduce an error, or to request clarification on the circumstances that lead to the bug, or even to point out mistakes in the report that reveal it to not be a bug at all.
- Vote
- You can vote on reports—both yours and others’. Voting is your way of saying which bugs and feature requests deserve the most attention from Borland.
- Rate
- You to rate the quality of other people’s reports, such as whether they accurately and precisely describe the problems, or whether they includes enough example code for others to reproduce them. Note that rating is not for you to indicate how important it is to you that a bug gets fixed; that’s what voting is for.
While it’s great to post bug reports and feature requests to newsgroups or Web sites for comment, the place where you can be assured that the relevant people at Borland will see your ideas is QualityCentral.