Hi,
In the past it happened to me a few times that I opened bugs about
something wrong that happened on a Wikimedia site, and it was closed as
invalid because the issue was not in MediaWiki code, but in a local gadget,
style or template on that project.
The bugs were actually fixed, but I'd like to question the "invalid"
closure.
They were real bugs in real products. The fact that the software is not in
Gerrit doesn't mean that they don't affect the product de facto. Just for
the sake of example, if a bug in a local Gadget affects the Flow extension,
for example, I find it perfectly valid to add tag the Flow tag to it. Core
and extension developers should be curious about how what they developed
behaves in the wild.
I do wonder what other tags are there to add to such a bug? I'm going to
open one now.
(P.S. Yes, this raises an issue of whether non-Wikimedia sites should
count. I say - yes, and it shouldn't be limited unless it gets seriously
out of hand. But a URL with reproduction instructions must always be
provided.)
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