We held our second bug day Tuesday Feb. 19th.
*How it Went* We looked at open bugs in the Wikimedia's Git/Gerrit component. We focused on upstream issues that may have been fixed with the recent upgrade and issues that need status updates. Andre, ^demon, MatmaRex and I triaged bugs and had help from developers in #wikimedia-dev.
*What we Achieved* We triaged about 25 bugs [1]. This included retesting old reports to see if the problem still exists after the Gerrit software upgrade on the Wikimedia server. Many of these bugs were still valid, so we checked statuses of upstream reports to see if some progress has taken place in the meantime
*Improvements Implemented* -Better Landing Page [1] started as a landing page listing 'Who,' 'What,' 'When,' and 'Where.' Since we focused on upstream issues I was able to link to Release Notes and Gerrit's bug tracker on that page and not clutter up [2]. After the event we recorded the bugs that were acted upon and comments from the events etherpad onto the new page. We will likely continue this process.
*Question for Prospective Participants* I would like to know if the timing may be a barrier for prospective attendees. Is there a better time to hold the bug days? So far we've run both events on a Tuesday 17:00-23:00 UTC. We could alternate the time we hold bug days to allow more people to participate.
Again, thank you for your participation and support!
-Valerie Juarez
[1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20130219 [2] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage
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