Please add a "known bugs" list

Until that point in the future, I suggest to create a “Bugs” forum category where people could report bugs.
Once confirmed, they would be moved to “Known Bugs” category by the JUCE team/admins. When the bug is resolved it can be moved to a “Resolved Bugs” category.
It would be much better than the current situation where seemingly arbitrarily some bug reports get responses and some don’t.

It might be a good idea to make several “Bugs” sub-categories like “Audio Plugins/Bug Reports”, but only one “Known Bugs” category, where devs can look to understand the current situation. For longstanding bugs the topic could mention at which version the bug was introduced.

So for example when the AU wrapper was broken between JUCE 4.1 and 4.2, a developer would had been able to easily tell the situation from the “Known Bugs” category and could choose to stay with JUCE 4.0 for the time being if they needed AU. Then they would of course verify that JUCE 4.0 is a good choice by having a look at the “Resolved Bugs” category (where bugs of previous versions are listed).

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