Bug management/Project maintainers

This is general information for maintainers of Bugzilla components/products. If you are not a maintainer, take a look at bug management.

To get added to the default CC list of a component or a product
Either file a bug report under Wikimedia→Bugzilla, or just ask andre__ or Thehelpfulone on the IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.

To update versions or descriptions

 * Check if you have 'editcomponents' permissions to do this yourself.
 * If you do, edit your product/components.
 * If you don't, please file a bug report under Wikimedia→Bugzilla and describe what you would like to have changed and where.

To add a project or component
File a bug report under Wikimedia→Bugzilla.

Include in the bug report:


 * A description of your project, ideally including a link to the wikipage/webpage.
 * If this should be a product on its own, or a subcomponent of an existing product (e.g. under 'MediaWiki extensions').
 * Who should be in the default CC field to receive bugmail on all bug report changes for that project. (Note: You can edit your bugmail preferences here.)
 * Only in case of a product:
 * Which subcomponents are needed (if none are needed, a 'General' component will be created).
 * Mention if you want voting for reports by Bugzilla users enabled. Note that this only makes sense if you consider these votes as an influence on your decisions, and that the general availability of voting in Bugzilla might become subject of future discussion.

To get permissions to edit bugs
In case you don't have these permissions (you can check here) just ask on the IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Note: Handing out permissions is not limited to the Bug Wrangler. Various community members (including volunteer sysadmins and Thehelpfulone) are able to hand them out as well.

In the past we practically gave out 'canconfirm' and 'editbugs' permissions to everybody, but due to vandalism this was changed. The current rules are yet to sort out (see the corresponding bug report).