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[OH-Dev] Mission Assumptions

Grant Bowman grantbow at gmail.com
Sun May 13 18:43:51 UTC 2012


I have been having a problem with a mission that Asheesh asked me to look at.

https://openhatch.org/bugs/issue429

This kind of bug should become obvious as more and more people try it
and fail. The error messages are cryptic and I think the test need to
be loosened. Nomatter how 'right' the system is if it fails for new
users in a very typical use cases it needs to be changed somehow. The
point of the missions is to help new users learn, not encounter
problems with the learning system no matter how many tests it might
pass. If this is for newbies as I suspect it is aimed at, better error
messages may be the right way forward with hints for typical types of
failures or relaxing the pattern matching a bit.

Am I understanding the intent of this mission and the nature of this
particular bug correctly?

Grant


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