Bugzilla/sco

Aw bugs in the MediaWiki saffware shid be reported at bugzilla.wikimedia.org. Foreby, this is the steid tae speir fer new featurs or enhancemants til the saffware.

Whit is Bugzilla?
Fer mair information, see the Wikipædia airticle oan Bugzilla.

Bugzilla is aen oanline bug-trackin tuil, deveelopt bi the Mozilla Foundation, n is the system that we uise tae track aw apen issues wi MediaWiki.

The raison that we uise Bugzilla is that it permits the deveelopers tae easilie fynd, track n tauk aneat issues, tae spot dupleecates n ulteematelie tae resolve thaim.

Wikimedia's bug tracker is uissuallie referred til aes "BugZilla". Aulder referances micht crie it "MediaZilla".

Reportin ae bug or speirin fer ae featur
Please see Hou tae report oan ae bug.

Comments
Bugzilla comments ar plain tex; ye canna uise HTML. Houever, Bugzilla will autæmateeclie cræft hyperlinks in thir waas:

Link til:
 * Bug report:


 * Comments: . Can be combined wi bug ava:


 * Attachments:


 * SVN commits: (link to the revision shown in Code review (through Special:Code/MediaWiki)


 * Chynge sets in Gerrit:   The recognised format fer chtngeset nummer is . Newlines added bi bugzilla break the autælinkin, aes uissual. Techneecal details: see rules.

Mair info: Hints n Tips. Fae The Bugzilla Guide. Gang thaur fer the latest version.

Ful URLs
Wabsteids:

MediaWiki-style internal links
Thay ar supportit. Bi defaut thay point til Ingils Wikipædia. Interwiki prefixes ar supportit ava, n wairk aes uissual, stairtin fae en.wikipedia.org: will link til the German Wikipædia, n sae oan.

Uisin pipes fer ae differant label disna wairk. Fer example;  isna supportit n will na cræft ae link.

Section links wairk ava, bit ye need tae insert thaim richt: the simplest waa is tae copie the URL fae the location baur o yer brouser, n add brackets roond the pairt o it efter wiki/, e.g. tae link Eeditin interface (techneeclie: the section link haes tae be URL-encoded awreadie).

Langer interwiki links need tae be oan thair ain line, itherwise thay'r split ower twa lines n will na be linkified. Gif aen interwiki link is na recognised, add ae colon : afore it (e.g. ).

Aes o late, non-local interwikis wairk ava.

Why maun Ah register?
We need ye tae register tae uise Bugzilla. This is primarilie sae that we can contact ye gif thaur's further speirins aneat yer bug haun-in. Fer example, gif ae deveeloper canna repleecate yer proablem thay will speir ye fer mair information. Bi defaut ye'll get e-mail annooncemants whan thaur's acteevitie oan yer bug reports.

Foreby, ye can add/remove yersel fae onie bug report (incluidin reports cræftit bi ither uisers).

You can change your preferences to specify when Bugzilla should (and shouldn't) send emails to you. To change your preferences, log in on Bugzilla and click on your email address at the top right of the page.

How do I register?
Registering is simple and free. Click the "create account" link at the top right of the page, enter your e-mail address (and optionally your real name) and click "create account". Then simply log in using the password you receive in the confirmation e-mail (which can be changed in your preferences once you have logged in). When logging in enter your email address in the login form on any Bugzilla page.

Note that new users are prevented from taking certain actions by default, such as closing or assigning tickets. This is largely to protect against spam. You can acquire these rights by participating in the tracker in other ways, or by requesting them on IRC.

How to hide your email address
Please note that (unlike on Wikimedia projects) your email address will be visible on threads you participate in, and on thread CC lists you have added yourself to. It is visible to everyone who is logged in. It is not visible to people who are not logged in. Your email address can not be hidden from logged-in readers.

It is possible to create an additional web-based e-mail address, and then set it to forward email to your main email address. This prevents exposure of your main email address. Google Mail (Gmail) allows free email forwarding. One can automatically forward email from one Gmail account to another Gmail account, or to any email account.

You can change your email address or name at anytime on Bugzilla. They are then changed in all bug threads you participated in. So if you decide later on to hide your main email address or name you can still do so.

Why can't I report bugs on the wiki?
You can. You can also report bugs by writing them in chalk on the pavement. However, if you want a developer to act on it then you need to put it somewhere they are likely to see it, namely Bugzilla.

How do I link to a bug?
If you want to create a link from a wiki page to a Bugzilla report, use, where XXX is the number of the bug report. For example will result in the following link: 4198.

You can also use the bugzilla template, for example will result in. In some wikis, you can use, and also  when the bug report has been marked as fixed.

What do the priority and severity fields mean?
See Bugzilla/Fields and Bugzilla/Fields.

What does the Status field mean? (NEW, RESOLVED, etc.)
See the field description. NEW is also one of the statuses that an open bug might have.

How can I see bugzilla attachments properly?
Currently we override your browser settings, so PNG attachments are downloaded instead of being displayed in your browser etc. A modified inlinedisposition extension is available for Firefox users: it restores normal behavior on our bugzilla, without affecting other sites.

Queries

 * List open Bugzilla tickets by number of votes