Bug management/Triage/20140429

Who: Anyone who is interested in MediaWiki, including you!

What: Numerous of the nearly 600 general MediaWiki Bug Triage - (full list of bug reports and enhancement requests)

When: Starting around 14:30 UTC Tuesday, April 29, 2014 for two hours (Time Converter).

Where: #wikimedia-office on Freenode IRC - You can use http://webchat.freenode.net if you don't have an IRC client. The Etherpad to document our progress is located at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/BugTriage

See also How to triage.

Attendees

• Dan Garry (Deskana)
• Andre Klapper
• Quim Gil (qgil)
• thedj
• Edokter
• Krenair
• Nikkerabit

Results

• Buglist is down from 582 to 553 tickets (29 tickets moved to better components or closed)
• Numerous tickets received updates in comments, priority or CC list

Reports that got acted on / retested:

(Note: This list is not necessarily complete.)

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63766
  • No response from reporter; closed as WORKSFORME
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63251
  • pinged on, looks FIXED to me
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25198
  • moved to better component, lower priority and bumped version
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63614
  • open question, asked again
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18544
  • visual glitch in IE6. WONTFIX as too old.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21318
  • WONTFIX as Growth is now handling onboarding and there are smarter ways to onboard users than make messages more persistent
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64220
  • pinged reporter again, as more info is needed
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62443
  • ActiveUsers => CC'ed Aaron
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39339
  • Found cause to be Tidy + * lists
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63872
  • Mark as easy for SVG editors, moved to better component
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43302
  • CC'ed design folks
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44568
  • Bash problem, reset the assignee
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24297
  • closed as WONTFIX as wiki no longer exists
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28427
  • CC'ed related people, asked for confirmation, lowered priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27576
  • moved to Database component, lowered priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30072
  • low priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62641
  • WORSKFORME, no reply from reporter
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63846
  • Moved to "Skin and page rendering" as the most UI relevant component we have
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36911
  • Set to low priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46998
  • marked as easy
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11481
  • closed as WONTFIX
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6942
  • WONTFIXed in favor of Flow
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58159
  • still valid
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49803
  • confirmed out of personal recent annocdotal experiences
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58172
  • still valid but not high priority, rather low (only happens for 1.19)
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62631
  • closed as WONTFIX
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55800
  • commented asking for clarification
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13634
  • lowered priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26333
  • lowered priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64602
  • moved to I18N
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57671
  • pinged the reporter if that's still a problem in recent 1.22
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54819
  • Marked as easy
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18489
  • lowered priority and CC'ed performance folks
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41373
  • Marked as dupe of two other issues
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55555
  • Closed as invalid; cannot be fixed through MediaWiki
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52129
  • low prio as patch was abandoned
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50973
  • moving to CLDR; stacktrace looks like I18N territory; then closed as duplicate
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43646
  • closed as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50922
  • CC'ed Aaron (performance related)
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40880
  • pinged user
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5732
  • Increased priority and bumped version
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16416
  • Added dependency to thumbnailer meta ticket
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26839
  • partially solved, needs IE triage
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38102
  • not reproducible
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36662
  • moved to Echo; asked if still happening
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2939
  • moved to Echo
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26753
  • closed, was fixed at some point
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17365
  • Closed as WONTFIX; minor Monobook design issue
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37539,
  • lowering priority; marking as thumbnail issue; unclear if still in a recent version
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18679
  • Closed as WORKSFORME; 5-year old local issue.