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

What: Triage older, open MediaWiki bug reports and enhancement requests which have been set to high priority a long time ago. - (list of bug reports and enhancement requests)

When: Starting around 17:00 UTC Tuesday, June 24, 2014 for 90 minutes (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

• Greg Grossmeier (greg-g)
• Andre Klapper (andre__)
• ^demon
• csteipp
• anomie
• parent5446
• ...

Results

• Buglist down from 64 to 52 tickets
• Numerous tickets received updates via comments, priority or CC list

Reports that got acted on / retested:

• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43506
  • reduced priority, reset assignee, asked for follow up
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18861
  • Fixed already, closed by demon
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32013
  • Low priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28671
  • Reduced to low and pointed out what it's asking for doesn't exist
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40261
  • lowered prio, asked for browser info
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36587
  • reset assignee, asked him (Gilles) if the prio should be lowered, and pinged a reporter that they were asked a question many months ago
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33214
  • Already fixed as bug 63150
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40920
  • reset assignee, pinged the patch author and reviewer for feedback (no movement on patch for over a month, needs a rebase)
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42355
  • Proposed WORKSFORME resolution in the bug report, set priority to low and severity to minor
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42394
  • Not much we can do here, looks like a WebKit bug and upstreamed already - lowered priority
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12974
  • poked the nest of a very old bug (a duplicate is a 4 digit bug number)
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42229
  • lowered priority to normal - no other occurrences I could find on the interwebs, plus no major problem
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43509
  • old patch, needs reviews/rebase, added the gerrit reviews to the bug CC
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40362
  • updated comments by bawolff and Krinkle; lowered priority; patch added by Aaron
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20189
  • kept as is (with Risker and James commenting it on IRC)
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42637
  • pinged on
• https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32590
  • cannot reproduce; asked if still a problem