Luiz Augusto lugusto@gmail.com writes:
Firstly, thank you very much for enabling DPL on all Wikisources! [1] It is IMO a pity that this request was fulfilled based only in a direct request, but at least it is now enabled.
Please help us to develop Wikimedia contents in foreign languages simply giving 30 minutes each week to check those requests!
30 minutes a week would be less attention than they are currently getting.
The Berlin Hackathon, was especially helpful in taking care of some of these shell requests. Take a look at http://hexm.de/2w for a list of requests closed during the hackathon. Of special note is Bug #5220 (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/5220), the request to “Enable email notification on changes to user talk pages also on big wikis.” It has been left for YEARS, much longer than any other request you mention.
There is hope for every bug, no matter how old.
However, I admit I have been giving non-shell requests a bit more attention in my bugmeistering because the people with shell access are pretty good about dealing with the requests. For example, of the 20 shell requests opened this month, only 12 have not yet been dealt with, which means 40% of shell requests opened in the past two weeks are already completed.
By comparison, only 85 of the 256 shell requests created since the first of the have not yet been closed, so 67% of the shell requests opened this year are completed.
That said, many of the open requests are open for a reason. For example, the LiquidThreads request that you list:
25609 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25609 Enable liquidthreads for the Wikimedia Brasil wiki (waiting since 2010-10-21)
is open because Andrew's LQT rewrite is ongoing. Last time I checked in with Andrew on this, he was finishing up the backend rewrite. That was at Easter, though, and I haven't checked back in on the LQT project to see when we could start deploying it again.
You've made a good point, though, and I'll be working with CT Woo and the operations team to make sure these requests get attention in a more timely manner.
Mark.