Bug management/Triage

Bug triage refers to assuring quality of bug reports in Wikimedia Bugzilla. The process of triaging is explained in the Triage guide. The main job of triagers and the Bugsquad is to help users and developers in Bugzilla. Triaging a bug report involves making sure that the bug report
 * has enough information for developers and makes sense
 * has not already been reported before (checking for duplicates)
 * is filed in the correct place (product and component)
 * has sensible "Severity" and "Priority" fields
 * is versioned correctly

We currently have a bugwrangler who triages bugs and organizes bug triage meetings to collectively prioritize, validate and assign bug reports, and to sometimes recruit developers to fix the bug or implement the enhancement. We announce the meetings ahead of time on wikitech-l and via Google Calendar, Identi.ca and Twitter.

Bug triage meetings are held in a public IRC channel, #wikimedia-dev (webchat link). See MediaWiki on IRC for general information on IRC.

Useful links

 * Google calendar of bug triage meetings
 * How to organize a bug triage meeting

Next meeting
The next Wikimedia Bugday will take place on Tuesday, January 29th, 17:00-23:00 UTC in #wikimedia-dev on Freenode IRC Etherpad: Bug Triage for January 2013

We are going to take a look at bug reports (excluding enhancement requests) which have not seen any changes for more than one year, trying to reproduce some plus provide some feedback. Currently these are about 250 tickets.

No technical knowledge needed, no obligations! It's a nice and easy way to get involved in the community or to give something back. See also How to triage.

Step by, say hello, and give it a try! :-)

Past meetings

 * January 2013
 * Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 17:00 UTC: reports that have not seen any changes in 1+ year(s). etherpad
 * September 2012
 * Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 17:00 UTC (time conversion): patch triage & submission
 * May 2012
 * Wednesday, May 9, 16:00UTC: internationalisation & localisation in (Time zone conversion).
 * March 2012
 * Wednesday, March 28: GIT triage, 19:00UTC in
 * Friday March 23: API bug triage, 20:00UTC on Friday, March 23, 2012 in
 * Wednesday March 14: Triage of 1.19 tarball blockers: 16:00 UTC
 * Friday March 2: Triage of new bugs found during MediaWiki 1.19 deployment; 21:00 UTC
 * February 2012 — Etherpad notes
 * Fri Feb 24: Triage of new bugs found during MediaWiki 1.19 deployment and new volunteer gathering, 21:00 UTC
 * Wed Feb 8: 1.19 Deployment Blocker triage, 22:00 UTC
 * January 2012
 * Wed Jan 25: 1.19 Deployment Blocker triage, 17:00 UTC: Etherpad notes
 * Wed Jan 18: Internationalization/localisation bug triage, 13:00 UTC (time conversion): Etherpad notes
 * December 2011
 * Wednesday, 7 December, 21:00UTC: Fundraising
 * Friday, 2 December, 1.18.0 bug triage -- do we need to release a 1.18.1? 2130UTC
 * November 2011
 * Thursday, 17 November 2011: Upload Wizard
 * Wedneday, 16 November 2011: Patch review
 * Week of 7-11 November: none scheduled
 * Friday, 4 November: MediaWiki 1.18 bug triage, 21:00 UTC (17:00PDT) -- (Etherpad, list of bugs to cover in Bugzilla)
 * Wednesday, 2 November: Non-MySQL databases at 19:00UTC -- summary, raw notes
 * October 2011
 * October 26th: Android app
 * October 19th: none
 * October 15th: NOLA Hackathon (unannounced)
 * October 5th: fundraising (report)
 * September 2011
 * Wikibooks on September 28 (Summary)
 * Internationalisation bug on September 14 announced (Summmary)
 * UploadWizard triage on September 7 announced (Summary)
 * August 2011 notes
 * internationalization Triage on August 31 announced (Summary)
 * Collection extension/PDF Export triage announcement for August 24 (Summary)
 * “Mobile” bug triage announcement for August 17 (Summary)
 * August 10 triage announcement
 * July 2011 notes
 * caching, squid, etc. triage announcement (Summary)
 * “Easy” Bug triage announcement (Summary)
 * June 2011 notes
 * Announcement for first IRC triage on June 28th (Summary)
 * Summary from June 13th triage and announcment of IRC triages
 * Summary from June 2nd triage
 * May 2011
 * Summary from right-to-left (RTL) triage in Berlin
 * Summary from May 9th

Archives

 * Archive 1 (2011-04-01 – 2011-06-01)