[QA] Annoying little bugs

[Andre Klapper]

Replying to old messages to provide public status updates:

On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 10:43 -0700, Quim Gil wrote:
> One idea that spontaneously came out was to highlight
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs
> and use these selected bugs as an entry point for new contributors. As a 
> specific goal we decided to promote ONE bug to solve every week. The 
> point of this being not only to fix that bug, but also (and mainly) to 
> advertise entry points to different tech projects and activities, and 
> Bugzilla/QA itself.
> 
> Andre took the action of organizing a Bug Day in October to kick off 
> this process.

We had put this on the backburner to run Google Code-In first from
November to January.

> * Triage reports tagged as EASY: 
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=easy%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=234714&resolution=---&query_format=advanced

This is mostly done now.

> * Choose the annoying little bugs for the next 4 weeks, plus a backlog 
> of a dozen featured bugs from different areas, just in case.

Not done yet, we'll probably try next month.

> * Improve https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Annoying_little_bugs as a 
> landing page to be promoted through Wikimedia mainstream channels.

Done now, based on common issues of contributors in Google Code-In. Also
provides Bugzilla queries for specific areas. Take a look. :)

> What we should do before is to document the criteria that make a bug 
> EASY, so we and anybody can assign that keyword consistently.

Done on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/describekeywords.cgi


Cheers,
andre
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Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/