This week, Sumana said she had some people who were interested in looking at old bugs to see if they were still reproducible under 1.17.

I decided to steal this idea for a great weekend sprint that even people who are not developers could take part in: Help me look at these bug reports and see if the problems they describe are still reproducible or if the problem has been fixed.

If you don't have a test wiki with 1.17 installed, then you can try to reproduce a lot of these on Wikipedia in your user sandbox. If you don't have one yet, you can use this link to load one: http://hexm.de/4w

If you come across one that you don't know how to reproduce in your user sandbox or on your own wiki, then add the keyword “testme”.

With that out of the way, there are plenty of bugs to test. Here are a few ways to find a good candidate for testing:

* There are currently 616 bugs that are explicitly filed against pre-1.17 versions of MediaWiki: http://hexm.de/4e

* If you modify the query to remove those bugs labeled “enhancement”, you'll end up with 345 bugs: http://hexm.de/4j

* Some bugs just have “unspecified” as the version. There are 1747 MW that were created before 2011-06-22 (1.17's release date) with “unspecified” as the version number: http://hexm.de/4f

* Again, if you remove the ones labeled “enhancement”, you come up with 526 bugs: http://hexm.de/4g

You can do all sorts of things to reduce the list to nice bite-sized chunks. Here, for example are smaller lists of bugs marked “normal” or higher severity for each version of MW in bugzilla:

1.6.x (11 bugs) http://hexm.de/4k

1.7.x (5 bugs) http://hexm.de/4l

1.8.x (3 bugs) http://hexm.de/4m

1.9.x (14 bugs) http://hexm.de/4n

1.10.x (17 bugs) http://hexm.de/4o

1.11.x (23 bugs) http://hexm.de/4p

1.12.x (20 bugs) http://hexm.de/4q

1.13.x (21 bugs) http://hexm.de/4r

1.14.x (26 bugs) http://hexm.de/4s

1.15.x (42 bugs) http://hexm.de/4t

All 1.16 versions (94 bugs) http://hexm.de/4v

I'm fascinated by the jump from 26 bugs version 1.14 to 42 bugs in version 1.15 and then the big bounce to 94 bugs in 1.16 and think this is a good area to dig into. I'm interested in *why* that is there, whether it is because of more people checking, better reporting, or (hopefully not) worse solving.

Of course, we still need people to look at the “testme” bugs, too: http://hexm.de/4i

Finally, if you have followed the steps in the bug and can't reproduce it, please mark it “FIXED”.

Comments are always helpful on the bugs, so leave one if you have a question or comment about the bug.

Happy Testing!

Mark.