Bug management/Triage/20130402



Starting on April 1st, 2013 and all week long with a dedicated session on April 02, we're cleaning up bug reports related to skin/theme and page rendering issues.

Skin and page rendering bug reports
What: Bug Triage of Skin and page rendering reports - see the full list of reports. We will be focusing on cleaning up, improving the quality of the reports, and retesting some on mediawiki.org or test2.wikipedia.org.

When: Week of April 01, 2013, with a dedicated Bug Day on April 02 from 16:30 UTC until 20:30 UTC. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time.

Where: IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello Bug Squad!. Look for users  and. We will welcome you with instructions and help. Our progress is documented in the Bug Day Etherpad.

Who: Anyone who is interested, including you!

Why: The idea came up in the Bugsquad discussion space.

See also How to triage.

This is a weekly QA activity organized by the Bug Squad team. Join us!

Attendees

 * - Trying to tame some bug reports and having fun hanging out with others on IRC!
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Reports
87 reports were changed in this week, 60+ of them being identifiable as part of the bugday:

to gather the atention of maintainers sensitive with multilingual content.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11415
 * Moved to Parser and priority changed from High to Low.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32281
 * Agreement to reassign all dependent bugs to Echo. CCing Andre so he can decide / execute.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27312
 * Encouraging the reporter to list this interesting feature under http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Raw_projects
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10013
 * Added See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40763
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25447
 * WORKSFORME
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28770
 * Functionality today provided by Universal Language Selector. Proposing WORKSFORME.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14396
 * It had 15 votes and a discussion that died. Poking.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28920
 * Narrowing the request to the case explained above and moving to i18n in order
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23626
 * Normal -> Low
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24739
 * Commented: I'm against. Normal -> Low. Design keyword.
 * Commented: there is code for gadget available.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29199
 * De-assigned from Trevor.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40622
 * Good point, no replies. Commented.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19757
 * WORKSFORME.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13627
 * Recently updated, hence only setting Version field.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41887
 * Dup of LQT bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41974
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16235#c3
 * WONTFIXed as it was removed
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42081
 * INVALID as legacy skins have been removed
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20533
 * INVALID as legacy skins have been removed
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38334
 * moved to LQT per comment #16
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46486
 * added accessibility keyword and priority
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24481
 * Still relevant, added Design keyword. Updated version.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38109
 * added upstream keyword, and linked to upstream bug report in the See Also field.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27047
 * Added patch keyword and commented. They seemed to be close to applying it.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26292
 * Enhancement -> Trivial. Normal -> Low. Can be still reproduced. Updated version.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45535
 * Moved to the Internationalization component, it's nothing related to skins and page rendering
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38213
 * Added a comment regarding the context and topic of the bug
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46225
 * Moved to VisualEditor after checking with JamesF.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40062
 * Normal -> Low. In my previous projects this would smell to WONTFIX, but here...
 * Link to current code on mediawiki.org
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15489
 * moved to Wikimedia > Site requests, as it asks for a server configuration change (user rights)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30525
 * Marked as low and trivial.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22463
 * WORKSFORME
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23475
 * Report doesn't link to a page to test and doesn't have a screenshot. Asked to retest.
 * Wondering if I should change to UNCONFIRMED
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24667
 * Enhancement -> Normal. Added Easy keyword.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28253
 * Normal -> Lowest
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36160
 * Normal -> Low
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41363
 * Linked to extension providing that functionality. Normal -> Low.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25234
 * WORKSFORME
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16928
 * WORKSFORME
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32684
 * Asked for retest and dropped priority from Normal -> Low
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24515
 * Improved bug summary, set prio to low (Level B browser)
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28131
 * Asked whether it is a candidate for http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23141
 * Nomal -> Lowest
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20807
 * Moved to Internationalizaton.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26032
 * Easy keyword. De-assigned from Trevor.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12693
 * Still valid, improved the bug summary
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25001
 * Normal -> Low. De-assigned from Trevor.
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34557
 * Added patch-in-gerrit keyword
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42193
 * Cannot reproduce, asked for more information
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33586
 * Cannot reproduce, asked for more information
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8171
 * Changed component: Skin and page rendering -> History/Diffs
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20842
 * WORKSFORME, cannot reproduce
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11687
 * Close as worksforme, no answer by reporter
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12664
 * Left a comment asking reporter how the current layout is. The report was filed in 2008, but I don't want to just close it.
 * Updated URL field with a non-deleted image link
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23638
 * INVALID as per comment 2
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24591
 * retested: way better now but still smaller issues left. Moved to Search
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16038
 * moved to Page editing as it's not skin related
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26544
 * still valid
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36626
 * Still cannot reproduce plus no answer, closing as WORKSFORME
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24544
 * Retested and updated summary
 * https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24779
 * WORKSFORME nowadays

Lessons Learned

 * This was the first bugday in #wikimedia-office instead of #wikimedia-dev which was less noisy and allowed to explicitly welcome people entering the channel.
 * Using #wikimedia-office requires checking first that there are no other office hours planned at the same time.
 * Outreach to cardinal developers was successful; documentation was updated accordingly
 * Having a prepared short list of reports to start with would be helpful, to be able to point new triagers to good tickets to start with.

--AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 21:22, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Promotion

 * Announcement sent to social media channels.
 * Invitation sent to 199 contributors with open bug reports related to this goal (14 had email delivery failures).
 * Announced on English Wikipedia Village Pump.
 * Reminder sent to wikitech-l.