---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@yahoo.com Date: 23-Sep-2006 16:38 Subject: [Foundation-l] Does anyone else think bugzilla is a complete failure To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@wikimedia.org
The subject line pretty much sums this note up. I am frustrated with the continued lack of development support for anything where the propents are not actually developers themselves. I have aware for sometime that asking for anything without uploading a "patch" is absolutely useless. So I accepted people that don't know what a patch is are just screwed. But I have recently realized many of developments which have never happened *did* have attachments (which I think are "patches"). The bugzilla system really must be broken. Because how can these things just be ignored for so long? Here is the bug which had the most effort invested in it from WS.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4375
This feature was so desired by people Wikisource a show of support by 15 separte languages was orchestrated hoping it would have some effect.
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Vote_on_enabling_the_ProtectSection_ex...
This was back in January. Nothing ever happened. The underlying problem this feature would solve will now hopefully be able to be addressed by "Stable version". At least I hope "stable versions" will be workable. But the last email about how de.WP wants a much more complicated system for this worries me.
There are other technical issues that have projects on WS at a standstill.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5881
I ask people online. Bugs are filed. Nothing happens. I do not want to make the effort to get all sub-domains to show support for these new features when it will have no effect. I realize that the developers are volunteers and are able to chose what interests them and where they would like to work. But they do not even give any feedback or even tell us they will not help us and we should learn to live without it. We just wait month upon month hoping it is on someone's to-do list somewhere. It is beyond frustrating. Has anyone else experienced these problems?
Birgitte SB
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