This summary of the past Monday's bug triage is a little late in
coming. For those who want to see the notes from the Triage that are
on etherpad, they can be found at <http://hexm.de/2f>.
Now, my summary:
JS syntax errors affect other modules in ResourceLoader
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28626
Brion filed this bug and we discussed what it would take to solve
it. To solve this one we'll have to find a GPL-compatible JSLint
work-alike. Anyone have one or know of one?
1205: Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction (tracking)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28499
After getting reports of a few DB timeouts, we set up this
tracking bug and discovered during triage we didn't really have
any way to keep track of these errors. We gave Sam Reedy the job
of tracking down what is necessary to do this so that, in the
future, we'll have a better handle on exactly how bad problems are
when they appear.
Replace MD5 password hashing with WHIRLPOOL
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28419:
I had retitled this bug base on Tim's idea. I used the triage to
help decide what sort of priority this should have. After a bit
of discussion we decided to let Tim set the priority and
(hopefully) implement his suggestion.
Animated GIF has black artifacts when scaled
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28631
During Triage, we had a discussion about ImageMagick thumbnailing
in general and when this particular problem would come up Sam
again suggested VIPScalar as a thumbnailer replacement.
Brion suggested we might return to not providing thumbnails of
animated GIFs because of size problem since this particular problem
was the result of trying to thumbnail animated GIFs.
After triage, I found that removing the “+map” option from the
thumbnailing command removed the artifacts from the thumbnail and
produced a smaller image.
Merge iwtransclusion branch into phase3
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28673
Even though this is an enhancement, and enhancements aren't
usually brought up in triage, I brought it up because so many
people have been looking for it and talking about it on
foundation-l, etc.
Sam said he has been working on merging the code, but Roan also
might need to help.
We'll still need to review it for architectural soundness.
In any case this probably won't make it in in time for 1.18.
Title attribute is missing for some internal links
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28182
Brought this up because people have been complaining about it ever
since we deployed in February and I was actually responsible for
creating the complaints by fixing an old bug
(
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/542).
After a bit of discussion about the problems of fixing old bugs —
something I'll remember forever — I said I would revert my fix.
(See
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/87030)
{{DEFAULTSORT:}} trims leading space
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28023
Comment from Triage: “This is a fairly esoteric case.” We are
lowering the priority.
Boldface all fatals (in the installer)
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28039
MaxSem has fixed this one. (See
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/87027)
Chad pointed out he plans to fix the entire warning system in
1.18.
Thumbnail feature in Special:listfiles doesn't handle very narrow
images well.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28076
Bryan has provided a patch and, after triage, Brion reviewed it.
Lucene search for simple text misses some results
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/25404
Search result snippets should skip parenthetical phrases
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28088
During triage, we discussed how we can manage Search bugs since
they require some Java skills and messing with Lucene. I mostly
raised this just so we could talk about how to handle these search
problems more reliably since, till now, we've relied on a
volunteer who doesn't have as much time available.
Can't upload PDF / ODF Hybrid
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28188
Another enhancement request. We talked about security checks on
PDFs and ZIPs and why we would want to support this. Updated the
bug with comments.
"Context per line" preference doesn't seem to do anything useful
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28343:
We'll be obsoleting this pref since it doesn't do anything.
Edit tab is shown as "view source" for blocked users, which breaks squid
caching
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28354
P.Copp supplied a patch which I've asked him to apply.
Line breaks introduced when nesting nowiki within code tags.
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/28087
This Parsing bug targetted for Brion's newparser.
Till next week, enjoy the bugs!
Mark.