Bug management/Project maintainers

= Bugzilla for Project Maintainers =

This is general information for maintainers of Wikimedia projects in regards to Bugzilla. If you are not a maintainer, take a look here.

To update versions or component information

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

To add a project to Bugzilla
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 (e.g. under 'MediaWiki extensions').
 * In case of a product: Which subcomponents are needed (if none are needed, a 'General' component will be created).
 * 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.)
 * 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 #wikimedia on irc.freenode.org. Note: Handing out permissions is not limited to the bugwrangler. Various community members 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).