Talk:Technical communications/Fall 2012 consultation

Out of scope ideas
Bugzilla-specific suggestions:
 * Try to find a way to do more with 'assigned'. (unassign automatically)


 * Could you elaborate? Does this refer to cookie licking? What would be potential criteria to "unassign automatically"? --Malyacko (talk) 20:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * For WMF issues, perhaps add a state 'scheduled' + date


 * My current take on this (not perfect but a first step) is that this should be done together with setting up a bot that pastes information from Gerrit automatically into Bugzilla. For example, if the Gerrit commit message of a merged code change matches a regex thar defines a bug number like ((b)[ug]{0,2}\s * [id]{0,3}|id|fix|pr|#)[\s#=] * \[?([0-9]{1,6})\]? then there should be an automatic notification in Bugzilla saying "Gerrit change ID 12345 has been merged and mentions this bug report. It can take up to two weeks until the code change is available on one of the Mediawiki wiki sites, depending on the deployment schedule at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap ." --Malyacko (talk) 20:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Make a stricter separation between WMF and non-WMF items in bugzilla.


 * What are "items" in this context? The "Wikimedia" product vs. the rest? Bugzilla "Target Milestones" like "Visual Editor" product using them for deployments, while "MediaWiki" product using them for tarballs? --Malyacko (talk) 20:44, 5 December 2012 (UTC)