On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi, thanks to the metrics reports now we know that the
top bug fixers in
November were Nobody (228) and Wikidata bugs (83)... followed by Michael
Dale (28), Roan Kattouw (23), etc.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_metrics/November_2012#People
Even if the visible problem is a less accurate Bugzilla hall of fame, the
actual problem is that a big bunch of developers don't notify when they are
taking a bug. This decreases transparency and increases the chances of
duplicated work.
This wouldn't be a big deal if it wouldn't happen to 55% of the bugs
resolved as FIXED last month. In practice this means that you can't be
really sure that a NEW bug is being fixed by someone while you are looking
at it.
Can we solve this? Actual and potential contributors will be happier, and
probably you as well. At the end we are talking about the practice of a
small, very active group of (probably full time employed) developers. The
solution is simply to click "take" and "assigned" when you start
working
with a bug.
See this report of November:
http://bit.ly/TJZLWU
"Wikidata bugs" is focused in 5 components: WikidataRepo, WikidataClient,
ContentHandler, Wikidata, OAI.
"Nobody" is all over but these are the top 10 components that could start
fixing their practices:
* Semantic MediaWiki 23
* Wikimedia & MediaWiki General/Unknown 20
* Wikimedia Site requests 17
* MobileFrontend (Beta) 12
* MediaWiki Interface 10
* UploadWizard 10
* MobileFrontend 9
* MediaWiki Internationalization 8
* Wikimedia Bugzilla 8
* ArticleFeedbackv5 8
There's hope to see progress in the next Metrics report. :)
For Wikidata at least we do set bugs to ASSIGNED most of the time. But
we do leave the assignee set to the mailing list. If there is a strong
preference to also change the assignee I can bring it up in the team.
Cheers
Lydia
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