On Thursday, May 29, 2014, Mark Holmquist <mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org> wrote:
Hi,
For the nth time, in #mediawiki, I've had someone ask how to be able to
mark a bug as resolved, or claim it, or mark it as a duplicate of another
bug. I conceptually know that this means "getting editbugs permissions" but
it happens so infrequently that I never know where to go.
Usually what happens is this:
1. I wrack my brain trying to remember the process for about 30 seconds
2. Failing, I try to ping Andre, Quim, and Sumana (none of whom are in the
channel, sadly)
3. I search with duckduckgo and pull up nothing of any use
4. I search
MediaWiki.org and find outdated status reports about
greasemonkey scripts but nothing useful
5. I go to the developer hub pages and look at the
welcome-to-the-community process but again find nothing describing this
process
Solution: We've made every editbugs user able to add editbugs to an
account. I've documented the process here:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bugzilla#Why_can.27t_I_claim_a_bug_or_mark_i…
Thanks to Chad for the quick resolution on this, hopefully this will be a
positive change overall.
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Mark Holmquist
Thank you! This is extremely sensible. Hopefully we can make sure avoid
duplicating this problem again in Phabricator.
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
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