On 2019-03-09 12:25, Strainu wrote:
The discussion athttps://lists.gt.net/wiki/wikitech/889489 is relevant, I believe. The request there was to not decline low-priority issues that might be resolved by volunteers and this clearly increases the number of open bugs (as I said, there are good reasons for that :) ). There were a number of proposals on how to track such issues so that reporters have a clear image of the status of the bugs. Have any of them been tried by at least one of the teams at wmf? If so, is there a way to share the results with other teams? If not, how can we convince the wmf to give them a chance?
In my experience WMF teams usually have a way to distinguish "bugs we're going to work on soon" and "bugs we're not planning to work on, but we'd accept patches". This is usually public in Phabricator, but not really documented.
For example for VisualEditor, if a task is put in the "Freezer" or "External" columns on the workboard [1], then we're not planning to work on it. I know other teams use a similar system, but the workboards were created independently by every group and have various differences.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/483/?hidden=true