Regarding your second point. This is sci-fi in case of small projects,
it maybe works for large ones, but for example when I create a bug for
huggle or wm-bot where PHP, python, or JS guy is needed, nobody ever
notice that. BTW mozilla is already doing this and it seems to be
pretty effective, I think wikimedia could get inspired a bit (this
idea is actually not from my head) :P
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No, they wouldn't need to do this, it would more
like optional feature
for new bugs and only for these which are created by person who need
assistance from someone who understand the language. For example if I
needed something in JS, I could just flag it so that pool of
programmers we have on wikimedia project would know someone need their
help and did it.
For example I can resolve probably any C/C++/C#/VB bug we have on
bugzilla. But I will not do that because I have no idea which bugs are
these.
If there was such a keyword, PHP programmer who need help from some
HTML5 programmer, could create a bug for some feature and set HTML5
keyword so that HTML5 people are aware of that bug, it would same as
"ops" keyword now. It exist just to inform ops that there is a bug
which they can resolve. Now we would have it for other "teams" as
well.
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Andre Klapper <aklapper(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:44 +0200, Petr Bena wrote:
>> Can we have that? so that people can filter out bugs that are require
>> skills for certain languages only?
>> For example if I needed to fix something that is C++ I would just tag
>> it so, same for PHP, JS, etc... So that C++ devs could filter out only
>> all bugs that require C++ knowledge and see all bugs across all of
>> wikimedia that can be fixed in that language.
>>
>> Developers could then simply filter out only bugs that they are
>> interested in or able to fix.
>
> Well, before developers can simply filter out bugs, somebody would have
> to go through ~14000 open tickets, understand which language(s) a bug
> report is about, and set the language(s) on all of these tickets.
> Would you like to volunteer? :)
>
> More seriously, doesn't the Bugzilla product or component that a bug
> report belongs to already pretty much define the programming language(s)
> in that area? That's the level where I'd expect such information to be
> located. (Or in a <programming-language> tag of a project's DOAP file in
> its code repository.)
>
> andre
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