Technical Suggestions for warmane devs

[Adulph]

I appreciate the effort and time investment of the developers and maintainers of the warmane core and I want to make some suggestions to further increase the quality of everyone's experience:

1. Introduce a deployment strategy

• Do not wildly patch the live system
  - Probably cause of unstable Lordaeron on 1st May
  - Crucial bugfixes are not deployed for 5+ days because of high server uptime
  
• I suggest a release schedule (or announce releases) with a changelog
  - Guilds can adapt to those times
  - Hotfixes can all be deployed in the hours after release
  - Changelog allows more precise tickets (and can be auto generated with the bugtracker and/or versioning systems (commits))

2. More testing

• Some bugs, that would have been easily testable (in code), made whole classes useless for 5+ days
  
• Automated client regression tests on a test realm for crucial class mechanics (or maybe even all quests):
  - Automatically create a character, test every single spell rank on different targets with different stats while recording the combat log and test the values against a previous recorded combat log.
  - Automatically go through and complete every single quest with the help of GM commands and other tools. (teleport to questgiver, spawn quest mobs right in front of you and oneshot + loot, turn in)

3. Bugtracker hygiene

• Do not rewrite or delete parts of the ticket
  
• Do not append information to the ticket without labeling it a such
  
• Do not mark tickets as duplicate without referring/linking to the original ticket for that issue (there are some issues where all tickets are marked as duplicate, but there is not a single open original ticket for the issue. Those issues are mostly resolved, but further discussion is impossible like that)

Thanks for your time