Bug management/Triage/20130415

Starting on April 15th, 2013 and all week long with a dedicated session on April 15, we are going to clean up old bug reports which have not received updates for more than 18 months.

Old bug reports

What: Bug Triage of old non-enhancement reports which have not received updates for more than 18 months - 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 (in case of some extensions: if they are deployed on the servers).

When: Week of April 15, 2013, with a dedicated Bug Day on April 15 from 16:00 UTC until 20:00 UTC. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time.

Where: #wikimedia-office ^connect IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello Bug Squad!. Look for users andre__ and valeriej. 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

• AKlapper (WMF) (talk · contribs) - Trying to tame some bug reports and having fun hanging out with others on IRC!
• Valeriej (talk · contribs)
• Theopolisme (talk · contribs)
• Odder (talk · contribs)
• Qgil (talk · contribs)

Results

53 reports received updates (50 of them listed in the Etherpad excerpt below), decreasing the number of reports from 132 to 69.

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19478
  • unable to reproduce
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28823
  • low priority and enhancement, but still valid
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30222
  • Could not retest. The WikEd toolbar will not show up when creating or replying to a thread.
  • Left a comment and asked reporter to retest.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30704
  • Testcase is gone. Asked for new one, plus set dependency to RTL metabug 745
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29871
  • Asked for retest.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30838
  • set enhancement severity, set low priority, might be a dup (comment added)
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30167
  • unable to reproduce
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9845
  • Quim pinged Chad
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23123
  • ask for better steps to reproduce
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26345
  • ask for minimal testcase
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25083
  • still valid
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14467
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15826
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17427
  • Added a comment about the extension not being maintained (it's still in SVN); all three bugs will likely end up as WONTFIXes per Andre.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17599
  • Asked for retesting, configuration might have changed a lot in the meantime
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21281
  • Unable to reproduce. WORKSFORME
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28986
  • seems to be still valid
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23388
  • Doesn't seem to be related to MediaWiki, but to the community usage of the <div /> tag. Closed as RESOLVED INVALID.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30298
  • asked if the current strings are sufficient
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31082
  • clarified bug summary
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30870
  • unclear steps to reproduce, asked for clarification
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32900
  • duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28284
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5788
  • Pinged (Cyrillic, no idea how to test) and moved to i18n components.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8501
  • Extension archives, assuming WONTFIX
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8560
  • It takes a developer to test this. Pinged the reporter.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8642
  • The bug is about interwiki transclusion but I have seen it in regular transclusion too. Commented.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9080
  • Bug filed by the developer on an experimental extension no longer maintained. Lowest.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9262
  • Tested with a modern Firefox. WORKSFORME.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9285
  • Today works as requested. FIXED at some point.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11957
  • Downgraded to Minor, added JavaScript keyword, asked the reporter whether it's still a problem.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13301
  • Enhancement and moved to i18n.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14168
  • Last version released in 2007. Assuming Lowest.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15380
  • Enhancement
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15616
  • Still true today. Updated version.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15661
  • Tried to reproduce but ended up asking the reporter because I got lost in the details.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16540
  • This extension is not maintained anymore. Assuming Lowest priority.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17605
  • This extension is not maintained anymore. Assuming Lowest priority.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17869
  • Asked the reporter for more details.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30871
  • dup of 26891
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30393
  • set to enhancement
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29621
  • still valid
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17951
  • WORKSFORME
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18359
  • I don't get it. Asked the reporter.
  • ... and the reporter resolved WORKSFORME. Nice!
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18393
  • Can't assess myself, CCed csteipp and reedy.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18534
  • WORKSFORME
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18628
  • Moved to Skin and page rendering
  • WORKSFORME after MatmaRex's feedback.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18667
  • The problem still exists. Moving to Database component, although I (Quim) could be wrong.
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25985
  • WORKSFORME
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30400
  • WONTFIX
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31843
  • INVALID

Promotion

• Announcement sent to wikitech-l.
• VP
• to do

Evaluation

• Topic too broad. Next time when triaging old tickets restrict to a specific product in Bugzilla (which would also make it easier to identify and reach out to developers again). --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
• Nobody joining in the last hour - try shorter dedicated sessions (e.g. 90 minutes) and instead two of them at different times of a day, to cover different timezones? --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 12:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)