Bug management/Triage

Bug triage often refers to bug triage meetings.

We currently have a bugmeister who triages bugs and organizes bug triage meetings to collectively prioritize, validate, and assign bugs. We announce the meetings ahead of time on wikitech-l and via Google Calendar, Identi.ca and Twitter.

We hold our bug triage meetings in a public IRC channel, #wikimedia-dev (webchat link).

When we triage bugs, we review each bug's initial report, comments, reproducibility, and any attached patches. We discuss its priority and status and decide whether to change them, and sometimes recruit developers to fix the bug or implement the enhancement.

List of bug triage meetings
Google calendar of bug triage meetings
 * March 2012
 * 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)