Bug management/Triage/20140429

Who: Anyone who is interested in MediaWiki, including you!

What: Numerous of the nearly 600 general MediaWiki Bug Triage - (full list of bug reports and enhancement requests)

When: Starting around 14:30 UTC Tuesday, April 29, 2014 for two hours (Time Converter).

Where: #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC - You can use http://webchat.freenode.net if you don't have an IRC client. The Etherpad to document our progress is located at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage

See also How to triage.

Attendees

 * Dan Garry (Deskana)
 * Andre Klapper
 * Quim Gil (qgil)
 * thedj
 * Edokter
 * Krenair
 * Nikkerabit

Results

 * Buglist is down from 582 to 553 tickets (29 tickets moved to better components or closed)
 * Numerous tickets received updates in comments, priority or CC list

Reports that got acted on / retested:
(Note: This list is not necessarily complete.)


 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63766
 * No response from reporter; closed as WORKSFORME
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251
 * pinged on, looks FIXED to me
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25198
 * moved to better component, lower priority and bumped version
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63614
 * open question, asked again
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18544
 * visual glitch in IE6. WONTFIX as too old.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21318
 * WONTFIX as Growth is now handling onboarding and there are smarter ways to onboard users than make messages more persistent
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64220
 * pinged reporter again, as more info is needed
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62443
 * ActiveUsers => CC'ed Aaron
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39339
 * Found cause to be Tidy + * lists
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63872
 * Mark as easy for SVG editors, moved to better component
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43302
 * CC'ed design folks
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44568
 * Bash problem, reset the assignee
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24297
 * closed as WONTFIX as wiki no longer exists
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28427
 * CC'ed related people, asked for confirmation, lowered priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27576
 * moved to Database component, lowered priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30072
 * low priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62641
 * WORSKFORME, no reply from reporter
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63846
 * Moved to "Skin and page rendering" as the most UI relevant component we have
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36911
 * Set to low priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46998
 * marked as easy
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11481
 * closed as WONTFIX
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6942
 * WONTFIXed in favor of Flow
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58159
 * still valid
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49803
 * confirmed out of personal recent annocdotal experiences
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58172
 * still valid but not high priority, rather low (only happens for 1.19)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62631
 * closed as WONTFIX
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55800
 * commented asking for clarification
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13634
 * lowered priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26333
 * lowered priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64602
 * moved to I18N
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57671
 * pinged the reporter if that's still a problem in recent 1.22
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54819
 * Marked as easy
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18489
 * lowered priority and CC'ed performance folks
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41373
 * Marked as dupe of two other issues
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55555
 * Closed as invalid; cannot be fixed through MediaWiki
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52129
 * low prio as patch was abandoned
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50973
 * moving to CLDR; stacktrace looks like I18N territory; then closed as duplicate
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43646
 * closed as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50922
 * CC'ed Aaron (performance related)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40880
 * pinged user
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5732
 * Increased priority and bumped version
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16416
 * Added dependency to thumbnailer meta ticket
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26839
 * partially solved, needs IE triage
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38102
 * not reproducible
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36662
 * moved to Echo; asked if still happening
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2939
 * moved to Echo
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26753
 * closed, was fixed at some point
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17365
 * Closed as WONTFIX; minor Monobook design issue
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37539,
 * lowering priority; marking as thumbnail issue; unclear if still in a recent version
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18679
 * Closed as WORKSFORME; 5-year old local issue.