User:Hatch/Builds/Development stages

The idea
With respect to the high standards aimed at on PvXwiki, all my builds undergo a strict process of development before even being considered for publishing. A build will only be published once it has been “pre-vetted” by at least one other community member. You are welcome to adapt to this idea and tag your own builds with any of the tags below. Also, your input about this philosophy is much appreciated. Please refer to the talk page for discussion about it.

General “in development” tag
This is the default tag for any of my builds that are in any stage of development. To contribute, please edit the “Discussion” paragraph of the respective section. Note that this tag does not contain a reference to this page, making it a general purpose tag.

Stage 0: Planning/collecting information
If you see this tag on any of my builds, it means I just started working on it. You can expect the skill bar/attributes to be a mere bunch of skills that “have something to do” with the general idea behind the build. They will most likely not be suitable for playing (or even testing) right away.

At this point in development, your best contribution might be any other skills (or skill types) that might prove to be useful or any other build, that seems to be a good reference and the like. Generally, feel free to speak your mind, but please remember that I create my builds for PvE heroes or for PvE players. I do never create builds intended for PvP use.

Stage 1: Early development
This tag means, I have found some set of skills and attributes which might work well together. However, there may still be better combinations out there.

At this point of the development process, please contribute with superficial test reports, general ideas about how to chain or use any skills and general comments. The build is still malleable at this point and nothing is fixed yet.

Stage 2: Advanced development/testing
The build is now almost ready for being reviewed. It requires intense testing. The skills/attributes are now nearly fixed and won’t change a lot during the next few development steps.

Please comment on the behaviour of the build during testing and anything you found working well or not working at all. This is also a good time to suggest optional skills for different PvE settings (i.e. different bosses/mobs/locations).

Stage 3: Waiting to be reviewed by a community member
If you see this tag, the build is almost finished. Skills and attributes won’t change and the build is generally considered “working alright”.

At this point, a review by a community member is needed. This means that any registered user of PvXwiki (preferably a long-term/experienced user or an admin) is asked to look over this build and provide a general “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” comment. If the impression was positive, the build avances into the next stage and will be submitted for vetting.

Stage 4: Finished and awaiting submission
This build is ready to be vetted. It will be submitted as soon as I find the time.

Stage -1: Abandoned
For whatever reason – perhaps most likely because the build would never have been approved by the community or turned out to be a mere variant of some other build – work on this build will not continue. The talk pages will hopefully contain detailed reasons as to why.