I'm encountering a similar problem now - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99361
On phabricator should there be a gadgets project? Community project?
I hit this issue all the time and to me is the biggest flaw with the fact editors can introduce code. Templates/gadgets for me are hard to debug, as it's hard for me to first locate the code, to understand it (since it's not hosted in the same way as our other code and is typically written very differently) and then to identify who owns it and who I can discuss fixing with.
This would be a great problem for the new community dev team to think about imo.
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:
Hi,
In the past it happened to me a few times that I opened bugs about something wrong that happened on a Wikimedia site, and it was closed as invalid because the issue was not in MediaWiki code, but in a local gadget, style or template on that project.
The bugs were actually fixed, but I'd like to question the "invalid" closure.
They were real bugs in real products. The fact that the software is not in Gerrit doesn't mean that they don't affect the product de facto. Just for the sake of example, if a bug in a local Gadget affects the Flow extension, for example, I find it perfectly valid to add tag the Flow tag to it. Core and extension developers should be curious about how what they developed behaves in the wild.
I do wonder what other tags are there to add to such a bug? I'm going to open one now.
(P.S. Yes, this raises an issue of whether non-Wikimedia sites should count. I say - yes, and it shouldn't be limited unless it gets seriously out of hand. But a URL with reproduction instructions must always be provided.)
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