User:AKlapper/WildIdeas

Random thoughts, ideas and items in no particular order and stuff that I might take a look at as Wikimedia's bug wrangler.

Higher priority

• study keywords, understand / improve descriptions
• Investigate existing bug triaging on Thursday
• Close WebFonts component and move to ULS? https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40539#c8
• update and clean up bug management related documentation! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_100#Improving_Documentation_on_Handling_Bug_Reports
  • Bugzilla vs. rt.wikimedia.org (non-public for operations, keyword "ops" -- who keeps this in sync?) vs. OTRS (ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs)
  • Instructions how to change default CC or default assignees? (examples: 13594, 15502)
  • Guidelines for creating new products in BZ? (examples: 12598,13023,12564,13138,15265,15168,37571,39072) - cf. https://live.gnome.org/BugzillaMaintainers/CreatingNewProducts for the admin PoV
  • create an UpstreamBugtrackers overview page, cf. http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/UpstreamBugTrackers
    • http://bugs.jquery.com
    • HipHop for PHP: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/issues - fix keyword to link
    • Selenium for automated browser testing: http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/list - fix keyword to link
    • Wikimedia Toolserver: https://jira.toolserver.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa
    • Opera Browser: https://bugs.opera.com/wizard/
• look at Bugzilla admin settings
• Currently meta/tracking bugs (blocks/depends on) seem to be used for release management. For community members that want to propose an issue to be a blocker this requires knowing the exact bug ID of the tracking bug, plus anybody can add anything to make it a blocker. Consider using flags to request making a ticket a blocker - https://bugs.merproject.org/editflagtypes.cgi?action=edit&id=1
• Push for using "Version" field in reports (makes cleaning up and retesting way easier)
• Versions: WMF-deployment vs upstream versions
• shellpolicy vs shell keyword usage? (Talk to Dereckson)
• look into open Bugzilla bug reports: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Bugzilla&resolution=---&debug=1
• Bugzilla: Reorganize products, use classifications? - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38990
  • Products closed for bug entry ("Deprecated" classification): Kate's Tools, Logwood, Wiktionary tools
• "WikiLoves Monuments Mobile" product = it's the app only? (based on PhoneGap = multiple platforms!) - inconsistent with "Wikipedia App"/"Wiktionary App" product naming then; no Versions used here!
• Policy: Bump "Version" field in bug report if still reproducible in newer version?
• Policy: how are branches handled? each branch to fix in one report, or using flags like Mozilla does "aurora = affected"?
• Policy: No needinfo/moreinfo? - after upgrade to 4.2 consider new moreinfo flag extension upstream
• Policy: "upstream" keyword: "Somebody should upstream this" vs "Upstream ticket URLmust exist"

Lower priority

• extensions: which ones are actively maintained? are reports properly triaged? are there dead components?
• identify key triagers / potential bugsquad
  • start with / get into having monthly bugdays
• design keyword workflow: improvements possible?
• analyze priority field usage and how realistic it is, cf. http://www.mail-archive.com/mer-general@lists.merproject.org/msg00272.html
• Which extensions are deployed in production (to reproduce; cf. bug 36738)?
• Reconsider these fields:
  • Web browser (used in 318 reports, total)
  • Mobile platform (used in 485 reports, total)
• Role of wikibugs-l@ default assignee ? Just all bugmail? See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31790#c1
• Policy: Are access restrictions sometimes needed? When? cf. http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Bug_Access_Restrictions
• Policy: When are users blocked or insulting/useless comments hidden?
• add my IRC office hours? - https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/IRC_office_hours
• Merge http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Malyacko / wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=User:AKlapper

Long term / Continuous

• set priorities of new reports
• Dive deeper into Gerrit
• Follow translatewiki issues: bug 39480
• keep an eye on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29
• understand L10N process?; Play with translatewiki.net/Thread:Support/Accepting_translations
• understand wikidata; https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Contribute
• Collect stock answers, cf. https://wiki.maemo.org/Bugs:Stock_answers or http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Bugtriage_Stock_Answers

Random Bugzilla queries

• filed in the last 7d: open all | closed ≤7d |
• open without response: all non-enhancement only

• without changes for 2yrs
• more than 20 votes
• RESOLVED LATER |
• Open bugs for Bugzilla itself
• MediaWiki: Open && Target Milestone==1.20.0

Tables

• All: Product×Component open
• All: Product×Status
• Wikimedia: Version×Component open

Growth charts

• All Projects
• MediaWiki
• MediaWiki extensions
• Wikimedia