Bug management Doc Rewrite

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NOTE: This is mostly in place now. -- Nov 20, 2012. --Malyacko (talk) 16:52, 20 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal in order to streamline, harmonize and centralize documentation in order to make it easier to get involved. Currently there are sometimes three places covering the same topic.

TODO: Check pages not listed here, but listed in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Bugzilla

Current situation[edit]

Proposed pages[edit]

Not clear in which namespace these pages should be. Categorised by target group:

  • Everybody's business:
    • Basic introduction: Bug triaging
      • Triage Guide, as "Triage rules can't be just in one person's head" (Luis Villa). For examples see https://wiki.maemo.org/Bugs:Triage_guide or https://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide . It should be specific to Wikimedia (wild examples: describe when to set the "ops" keyword and who is expected to file a request in RT?; describe anything specific with regard to triaging extensions bug reports in general; how is the "Version" field used or not used; etc.)
    • Basic introduction: Bugzilla
      • Bugzilla Registration
      • Hiding your email address
      • Explanation of Fields (all of them)
      • Prefix linkification in bug report comments
      • Voting; Etiquette
    • One list of some useful queries
  • Users/Bug Reporters:
    • How to write a good bug report
  • Bug Triagers:
    • Bugsquad Community page (existing)
    • Triaging guide
    • Recurring tasks and tasks how to help
    • Triage meetings: General info; list of logs
  • Bugmeister/Bug Wrangler:
    • Status reports etc
    • List of past and current activities/tasks in Bugzilla (for Bugmeister)
  • Developers:
    • Info for project/package maintainer, e.g. how to get a new product listed
  • Deeper knowledge / advanced stuff:
    • Statistics
      • Weekly data reports etc
    • "Other features" etc from Wikipedia:Bug_reports#Other_features
    • Future plans / proposals
    • "See Also" from Wikipedia:Bug_reports#See_Also