User:MZMcBride/Bugs

Bugs!

Philosophy
Occasionally a user finds a bug while using some Wikimedia-related product or project. Sometimes it's in MediaWiki, sometimes it's in a MediaWiki extension, sometimes it's somewhere else entirely. Rather than sitting quietly and not telling anyone about the bug, these users will sometimes take the time to report it in the appropriate venue, Bugzilla. And then it sits. Sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes for a few years. Sometimes commented out and poked and prodded, sometimes left completely quiet. This can be a very frustrating experience for users and most of them simply forget about the bugs and move on.

Style
Bug summaries should be short and descriptive. They should include the component name, particularly if the bug involves a MediaWiki extension. A bug summary such as "Contact form doesn't work" is far less useful than a bug summary such as "MobileFrontend's contact form doesn't work". Oftentimes the bugs will be reported (in IRC channels, in e-mail, etc.) by referencing the bug's ID and bug summary, not including the stored component name. This makes it very important that the bug summary be as useful as possible.

Bugs bugs bugs
This section is an attempt to list some of the oldest bugs in Bugzilla in a more sensible format than obscure Bugzilla queries. It's unclear what the best format to accomplish this goal is, so a few different formats may be tested and tried.

Development

 * 1999 &mdash; add MediaWiki: footer message
 * 2443 &mdash; always output alt="" text
 * 2679 &mdash; put category links above edit window when previewing
 * 3185 &mdash; Page move rollback should not leave a redirect
 * 3753 &mdash; Option to hide rows from Special:Contributions where the edit is the most recent to a page
 * 4127 &mdash; Token to suppress table of contents autonumbering
 * 4469 &mdash; Provide per-namespace site notices
 * 5984 &mdash; Edit preview doesn't let you preview cite.php footnotes.
 * 6069 &mdash; Different message for talk page edits
 * 12681 &mdash; moving new messages bar out of content area

Resolved

 * 1250 &mdash; "Show preview" button when database is locked
 * 1306 &mdash; suppress "email this user" link when e-mail is not available
 * 1941 &mdash; add  { font-family: monospace; }  to text area when editing
 * 2242 &mdash; add expiry to temporary new passwords
 * 2477 &mdash; add table of contents to Special:Watchlist/edit

WONTFIX?

 * 3911 &mdash; Ability to transclude only part of a page
 * 6379 &mdash; Disable images in signatures on enwiki

Shell

 * 12569 &mdash; shell request to remove developer group permanently
 * 12760 &mdash; fix rollbackers' rate limit
 * 15842 &mdash; image moving on WMF wikis

Queries

 * All open bugs in ascending order by bug number
 * All open bugs marked "easy"