Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Recently, there was a discussion on a bug ("UNIQ
key exposed"
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/14562) about the priority setting I had
given the bug.
[...]
I suppose these are all linked to the parser work that
Brion & co are
currently working on, but the arrival of the new parser 6 months to a
year or more away (
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Future/Parser_plan),
I'd like to get these sort of parser issues sorted out now.
For those more familar with the current parser: how can those developers
who are less experienced start fixing the problem? How important are
these issues?
Bugs have a habit of setting their own priority. If these bugs were
regularly being hit by users, they would have been resolved ages ago (in
theory!). But they only appear in very, very strange edge cases, which have
the lowest user impact (not quite zero, but slightly above).
My recommendation would be to add some parser tests for these bugs, mark
them as failing, and if the rewrite doesn't take care of them, re-examine
them then. There are so many more bugs that are affecting so many people.
The fact that you can't combine three types of esoteric wiki syntax in
certain ways currently really shouldn't be a very high concern.
I think that's roughly what Tim was trying to say.
MZMcBride