In order to be able to have time to clean up the default assignments in Bugzilla, I've put my weekly triage on hold this week and last week.

The rationale behind this cleanup is to avoid Cookie Licking (http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Licking) and make it easier for people to find work that has been requested but isn't being worked on. (Many thanks to Sumana for introducing me to the term.)

At the end of this process, my hope is that the assignments in Bugzilla will actually reflect work that people intend to complete. I'm restricting the changes to components that relate to Wikimedia sites (Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikinews, Wikisource, etc.)

As part of these changes, I'm asking people who've been assigned bugs because of the default assignments to review the list of bugs that they are currently assigned. If you've been assigned any bugs by default, I will email you a list of bugs and ask you to respond by telling me which assignments you would like to keep because you intend to work on them in the not-to-distant future.

If I do not receive a response by August 15th, I’ll assume that you don't intend to work on any of the bugs and remove you from those in the list I send you.

Again, note that I'm only doing this on components used on Wikimedia and for bugs where the current assignee was the default assignee. If you found a bug and “took” it by assigning yourself, I should not be contacting you about it.

Your help in this is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark.

[If this ends up on the list twice, it is because I'm sending it again through my own mail server since Google's Gmail shows it as sent two hours ago, but it hasn't shown up in the list archives yet.]