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