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MediaWiki.org and find outdated status reports about greasemonkey scripts but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
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:MHolmquist