[QA] [reading-wmf] tracking/documenting specs for your components

[Nick Wilson (Quiddity)]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> <quote name="Tilman Bayer" date="2015-11-16" time="16:56:27 -0800">
>> [...] and by auto-updating the status of tasks in "Tracked"
>> templates <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Tracked>.
>
> Agreed. The last (template:tracked) really seems like it should be
> changes to MW/that template instead of in Phab itself (the communication
> should be poll/pull instead of push).
>

This exists, as an optional per-wiki gadget, but the backend needs
restarting whenever tool labs goes down...
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-BugStatusUpdate.js
(Enable it at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets
- 1st section, 5th-from-last gadget)

ditto at enwiki and elsewhere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-BugStatusUpdate.js

Matt wrote at the Enwiki talkpage:

> For anyone with access, steps to restart it:
>
> ssh tools-login.eqiad.wmflabs
> become phabricator-bug-status
> webservice2 uwsgi-python restart

Please do, if you can! It's currently down...
Test here, once it's been restarted:
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:Quiddity_%28WMF%29/sandbox&oldid=1940341