As someone who has complained about the system in the past, I will explain what I have learned and hope others correct me if anything is in error. First you are looking at bugzilla from the wrong angle. It is not necessarily a mechanism to make certain requests are done so much as one to make certain requests are tracked. To make certain a request is actually done often requires contacting a developer directly and asking him to personally take care of your request linking to the bugzilla page. This personal request may have to be repeated a few times on different occasions till you find a developer at a convenient time. (I have also heard building shrines to these demi-gods is helpful) But all joking aside there is not really any mechanism in place to make sure requests get attention on an organized fashion. It is more a matter of whoever is able to demand attention; receiving it.
Birgitte SB
--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Ting Chen Wing.Philopp@gmx.de wrote:
From: Ting Chen Wing.Philopp@gmx.de Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Process for a project to request a setting To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 1:19 AM Thanks for your answer. This process does not seem to work well. Here is an example:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14624
Two months already and no response. Also no request for a link. And see the last comment from es-wp, so it seems to be a general problem that can potentially hit every project. My impression is that there are no body who feel responsible for this. If it is so, I think we should set up a responsible person for this. As far as I know it doesn't happen every day and it is surely not a thing that takes a lot of time.
Any opinion or suggestions?
Ting.
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Datum: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:24:37 +0100 Von: Kwan Ting Chan ktc@ktchan.info An: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Betreff: Re: [Foundation-l] Process for a project to
request a setting
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 18:16 +0200, Michael Bimmler
wrote:
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Ting Chen
Wing.Philopp@gmx.de wrote:
Hello,
as far as I know there are settings for
WikiMedia-projekts that can
only be done by certain developpers. An example is the
change for
autoconfirmed days limit. So if the projects want such
a setting changed, it must ask
a developper to do that.
Do we have such a mechanism? Where should
the project request such a
setting and who cares about these requests?
Yes, this is done via Bugzilla
(bugzilla.wikimedia.org)
Use
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia to
enter a new bug and add 'shell' in the
box of keywords (towards the
bottom)
Michael
For most (all?) changes, the dev will ask for a link
to an on-wiki
discussion which show the changes being asked for has
consensus on that
project.
KTC
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