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Set up workflow for having a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors, with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status: planning page -- postponed to January (after Google Code-in)
Phabricator: Work on consensus on configuration settings, drive decisions and keep an overview Status: In progress
Have a bugday on UploadWizard Status: Not done, likely to happen on Sep 09th 17:00UTC
(With Quim) Set up workflow for having a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors, with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status: Postponed to October due to Phabricator being priority
Phabricator (driving tasks): Get Alpha instance up and running; work on consensus on configuration settings Status: In progress
(With Quim) Set up workflow for having a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors, with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status: Not done: planning page created on 2014-07-02 targetting end of July
Have a Pywikibot bugday with the Pywikibot hackers around the end of July Status: Done - summary email; wiki page
Mostly Phabricator business (driving tasks) Status: In progress
Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status: In progress - Andre started preparing email draft to dev teams and workflow of planning on 2014-06-16
(With Guillaume) Close Phabricator RfC, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status: Done, see email
Phabricator: Identify "heavy topics" and blockers (vs. acceptable trade-offs) that must be fixed before starting a migration to Phabricator. Status: Done, see board
Phabricator: Act on top items in the "Doing" column for Phabricator migration Status: In progress
(With Guillaume) (Continued from March) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools/Review, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status: Done - RfC started on 2014-04-14
(With Guillaume) Have another IRC office hour about Project management tools Status: Done on 2014-04-17 and 2014-04-22
Gather more feedback on rebooted Annoying little bugs after GSoC start Status: In progress - Andre sent an email to five GCI mentors on 2014-04-24 and received three answers
Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status: Not done -- postponed to May
Have a bugday in the second half of April Status: Done: on 2014-04-29 about General MediaWiki, see Bug management/Triage/20140429
(With Guillaume) Have an IRC office hour about Project management tools Status: Done on 2014-03-28
(With Guillaume) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision. Status: Not done -- postponed to April
(With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs based on Google Code-In experience; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week":
Kill curated list on the wikipage; provide specific Bugzilla queries and "getting started" instructions for each area: Status: Done on 2014-03-07 (diff)
Introduce "Bug of the week" after talking to teams? Status: Not done - postponed to Q2/2014
Provide a NEEDINFO flag in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status: In progress: (porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4) -- might get postponed to Q2/2014
Provide a way to mark an item as NEEDINFO in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status: In progress: Created list of pros and cons of two implementations on 2014-03-10; next step is start broader discussion on wikitech-l@ and agree on which way to do
Install component watching extension to be able to receive bugmail for specific product/component for devs and triagers, plus no more manual adding of people to auto-CC by admins - bugzilla:37105. Status: Not done -- database issues when testing; not yet tested on 4.4 and upstream code is still 4.2 only. Porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4 -- postponed to Q2/2014
Improve Bugzilla queries on Annoying little bugs to show a good subset: Status: Done on 2014-02-18
Add guidelines for triagers how to identify a bug report that is good for this audience: Status: Done by editing the "easy" keyword description on 2014-02-24
Retriage existing bugs with easy keyword: mostly Status: Done
Fix inline displaying of image files in Bugzilla - bugzilla:54181. Status: Done - andre successfully tested csteipp's patch on Labs on 2014-01-05; deployed on 2014-01-10
(With Quim) Finish running Google Code-In contest. Status: Done
Evaluate Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools. Status: In progress - kicked off on teampractices@ and wiki on 2013-12-13
Test Bugzilla 4.4 with our custom patches on Labs (or zirconium in eqiad if production is still on kaulen in Tampa). Status: In progress, will need help from ops. Steps discussed between dzahn and aklapper on 2013-12-06; dzahn has set up a copy of Bugzilla 4.2 on zirconium in eqiad (see RT #4783). Next steps are upgrading that machine to Bugzilla 4.4, applying our custom patches, testing, and finally switching over.
Google Code-In: Define generic information (template) for all task descriptions; clean up & import tasks from wiki into Google Melange. Status: Done (except for tasks missing a mentor)
Finish cleaning up and syncing custom CSS in Wikimedia Bugzilla. Status: Done - done (except for two CSS files) (bugzilla:54823)
Have a public bug day approximately once per month. Status: In progress, planning next on in phab:T78684
(With Quim) Expose a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status: On hold -- after GCI, phab:T563
Successfully (co-)organize Wikimedia's participation in Google Code-In Status: In progress, phab:T76720
Progress on migrating to Phabricator: Set up Phabricator production instance, set up Legalpad instance, have test import of RT/Bugzilla data Status: In progress
(With Quim) Expose a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status: postponed to October
(With Quim) Expose an easy "bug of the week" with dev team support (after Annoying little bugs is in shape) Status: In progress, Andre preparing
Have a public bug day approximately once per month. Status: Done on 20140428 and 20140624, planning for 201407 started
Some more Bugzilla taxonomy cleanup. - bugzilla:38990 Status: On hold -- not enough time for this plus low priority now that we favor Phabricator
Investigate closing components of extensions archived in the code repository. - bugzilla:47540 Status: On hold, postponing
Investigate splitting "enhancement" out of Bugzilla's "severity" dropdown and make it separate. - bugzilla:58096 Status: On hold, low priority & only if we stick with Bugzilla -- not enough time for this plus low priority now that we favor Phabricator
(With Guillaume) Meet Project management tools stakeholders, determine requirements, and document this research. Status: Done
(With Guillaume) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools, take the first implementation steps (possibly in Labs). Status: In progress
(With Guillaume) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision. Status: Not done - postponed to April 2014
(With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week": Based on Google Code-In experience, decrease manual curation work by providing links to common "getting started" questions. Status: Done on 2014-03-07
Upgrade Bugzilla to 4.4 Status: Done on 2014-02-13
Common queries on Bugzilla frontpage - bugzilla:22170. Status: Done on 2014-02-13
Provide a way to mark an item as NEEDINFO in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status: In progress: Created list of pros and cons of two implementations on 2014-03-10; next step is start broader discussion on wikitech-l@ and agree on which way to do
Install component watching extension to be able to receive bugmail for specific product/component for devs and triagers, plus no more manual adding of people to auto-CC by admins. Status: Not done -- postponed to Q2/2014
Evaluate Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools. Status: In progress - kicked off on teampractices@ and wiki on 2013-12-13
Andre to learn more about / understand better Wikimedia's Release Management from Greg. Status: Not done won't happen this quarter, too busy with additional projects added while in Q4 (BZ etiquette & PM Tools eval)
mw:Annoying_little_bugs - try announcing an exposed easy "bug of the week" for new contributors, with support from dev teams. Status: Not done -- Google Code-In has priority over this.
Bugzilla setup / code:
Show InlineHistory in Bugzilla - bugzilla:47256. Status: Done
Clean up custom Perl CPAN modules and replace by distribution packages; puppetize Bugzilla's package requirements - Status: Done - RT #4783
Copy current production Bugzilla 4.2 to zirconium in eqiad (from kaulen in Tampa) for testing. Status: Done on 20131225
Upgrade Bugzilla on zirconium from 4.2 to 4.4. Status: Not done
Apply custom changes to Bugzilla on zirconium. Status: Not done
Test Bugzilla on zirconium. Status: Not done
Switch from old server to new server. Status: Not done
Only after 4.4 upgrade: Provide a NEEDINFO flag in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status: In progress - moved to Q1/2014 as 4.4 upgrade takes longer
Only after 4.4 upgrade:Install component watching extension. Status: Not done -- database issues when testing; not yet tested on 4.4 and upstream code is still 4.2 only. - moved to Q1/2014 as 4.4 upgrade takes longer
Puppetize Bugzilla - bugzilla:51036 Status: In progress - dzahn of ops working on this since 12/2013
20131014: Enabled InlineHistory by default for all users - bugzilla:47256
20130930: Create good relation to upstream Bugzilla developers via attending upstream Bugzilla meetings and being active on IRC and the support-bugzilla mailing list
20130926: Do not limit Product column in buglist.cgi to 8 chars - bugzilla:40244
20130925: Show InlineHistory in Bugzilla - bugzilla:47256
201211: Creation of "immediate" priority in Bugzilla (discussion) due to varying use of "highest"
201211: consider introducing a status WAITINGFORUPSTREAM like in Mer Bugzilla - not wanted as per mailing list discussion, use lowest priority and "upstream" keyword instead
