MediaWiki Bugzilla Report for January 04, 2010 - January 11, 2010
Status changes this week
Bugs NEW : 104 Bugs ASSIGNED : 15 Bugs REOPENED : 16 Bugs RESOLVED : 109
Total bugs still open: 4132
Resolutions for the week:
Bugs marked FIXED : 74 Bugs marked REMIND : 1 Bugs marked INVALID : 8 Bugs marked DUPLICATE : 10 Bugs marked WONTFIX : 9 Bugs marked WORKSFORME : 3 Bugs marked LATER : 4 Bugs marked MOVED : 0
Specific Product/Component Resolutions & User Metrics
New Bugs Per Component
Site requests 9 General/Unknown 3 General/Unknown 3 Blocking 2 Images and files 2
New Bugs Per Product
MediaWiki 13 Wikimedia 14 MediaWiki extensions 11 Wikipedia Mobile 3 mwEmbed 1
Top 5 Bug Resolvers
innocentkiller [AT] gmail.com 13 siebrand [AT] wikipedia.be 11 roan.kattouw [AT] gmail.com 10 hartman [AT] videolan.org 8 tstarling [AT] wikimedia.org 6
reporter@isidore.wikimedia.org wrote:
2010/1/11 Praveen Prakash me.praveen@gmail.com:
May I know why some bugs (like this https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21497) still remain not resolved even after months?
It's an extension bug, and the extension in question may not be maintained very well any more. I think EasyTimeline was written by Erik Zachte but is hardly maintained any more.
More generally, bugs can be ignored and left to rot, that happens. You may need to poke developers or whoever maintains EasyTimeline these days to get them to do something about it.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
Roan Kattouw wrote:
It's an extension bug, and the extension in question may not be maintained very well any more. I think EasyTimeline was written by Erik Zachte but is hardly maintained any more.
More generally, bugs can be ignored and left to rot, that happens. You may need to poke developers or whoever maintains EasyTimeline these days to get them to do something about it.
If so, why did such extensions add to mediawiki sites without proper testing? If it happened to Malayalam, it has problem with all Indic languages, Arabic, Chinese etc.
Praveen
Praveen Prakash wrote:
Roan Kattouw wrote:
It's an extension bug, and the extension in question may not be maintained very well any more. I think EasyTimeline was written by Erik Zachte but is hardly maintained any more.
If so, why did such extensions add to mediawiki sites without proper testing? If it happened to Malayalam, it has problem with all Indic languages, Arabic, Chinese etc.
EasyTimeline is a really old extension. I'm not sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was originally written before Unicode support was added to MediaWiki, or even before there was any support for languages other than English. So the problem isn't that EasyTimeline wasn't tested properly -- it's that it was tested against standards that were different from those we have today.
Yeah, someone should update it to have better multilanguage support. But if no active developers are familiar with the code, this may take some effort (patches welcome). Also, I seem to recall (several years ago, back when I last heard someone complain about this) that the big problem is not in EasyTimeline itself, but in the third-party software which it uses to render the images. Thus, MediaWiki developers might not be able to fix the problem on their own at all.
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Ilmari Karonen nospam@vyznev.net wrote:
Yeah, someone should update it to have better multilanguage support. But if no active developers are familiar with the code, this may take some effort (patches welcome). Also, I seem to recall (several years ago, back when I last heard someone complain about this) that the big problem is not in EasyTimeline itself, but in the third-party software which it uses to render the images. Thus, MediaWiki developers might not be able to fix the problem on their own at all.
It also doesn't help that it is written in Perl. Although it is not as rare as some other languages (ocaml to take a total random example) it would help if it would be in PHP. (The same goes for math)
Bryan
Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Praveen Prakash wrote:
If so, why did such extensions add to mediawiki sites without proper testing? If it happened to Malayalam, it has problem with all Indic languages, Arabic, Chinese etc.
Yeah, someone should update it to have better multilanguage support. But if no active developers are familiar with the code, this may take some effort (patches welcome). Also, I seem to recall (several years ago, back when I last heard someone complain about this) that the big problem is not in EasyTimeline itself, but in the third-party software which it uses to render the images. Thus, MediaWiki developers might not be able to fix the problem on their own at all.
I suspect that the problem on bug 6776 is just that the appropiate font isn't installed on Wikimedia servers / the font used to render timelines doesn't support that unicode section, not that the timeline extension itself has any issues with Malayalam characters.
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