Bug management/Task list

Monthly Goals until 2014

October 2014

October 2014 Phabricator: Prepare migration of Bugzilla and RT to Phabricator Status:    In progress Prepare Google Code-in Status:    In progress -- phab:T561 Have a bugday on PDF rendering and the Collection extension on Wed 2014-10-08 (organized and run by Nemo, Planning page) Status:    Done Phabricator: Migrate RT to Phabricator Status:    Not done -- postponed to November Phabricator: Migrate Bugzilla to Phabricator Status:    Not done -- postponed to November Set up workflow for having a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors, with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status:    planning page -- postponed to January (after Google Code-in)

September 2014
September 2014 Phabricator: Set up Phabricator production instance and push fixing remaining blockers Status:    In progress Phabricator: Improve its documentation Status:    In progress Bugday on UploadWizard on Sep 09th 17:00UTC Status:    Done

August 2014

August 2014 Phabricator: Work on consensus on configuration settings, drive decisions and keep an overview Status:    In progress Have a bugday on UploadWizard Status:    Not done, likely to happen on Sep 09th 17:00UTC (With Quim) Set up workflow for having a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors, with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status:    Postponed to October due to Phabricator being priority

July 2014

July 2014 Phabricator (driving tasks): Get Alpha instance up and running; work on consensus on configuration settings Status:    In progress (With Quim) Set up workflow for having a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors, with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status:    Not done: planning page created on 2014-07-02 targetting end of July Have a Pywikibot bugday with the Pywikibot hackers around the end of July Status:    Done - summary email; wiki page

June 2014

June 2014 Mostly Phabricator business (driving tasks) Status:    In progress Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status:    In progress - Andre started preparing email draft to dev teams and workflow of planning on 2014-06-16 Have a bugday on older bug reports with higher priority in MediaWiki Status:    Done - Bug_management/Triage/20140624 Make Google Summer of Code 2014 and Outreach Program for Women/Round 8 mentors and students provide their mid-term evaluations Status:    Done

May 2014

May 2014 (With Guillaume) Close Phabricator RfC, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status:    Done, see email Phabricator: Identify "heavy topics" and blockers (vs. acceptable trade-offs) that must be fixed before starting a migration to Phabricator. Status:    Done, see board Phabricator: Act on top items in the "Doing" column for Phabricator migration Status:    In progress Have sessions on Phabricator RfC and bug triage at Zürich Hackathon 2014 Status:    Done (though dropped triage in favor of three Phab sessions) Act on feedback received on rebooted Annoying little bugs page Status:    In progress -- some improvements on 2014-05-20 Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status:    Not done Have a bugday either on bugs with higher priority in MediaWiki, or testing the new PDF Renderer once a test instance exists Status:    Not done - pinged on wikitech-l@ about PDF renderer status

April 2014

April 2014 (With Guillaume) (Continued from March) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools/Review, and bring it to a decision if possible. Status:    Done - RfC started on 2014-04-14 (With Guillaume) Have another IRC office hour about Project management tools Status:    Done on 2014-04-17 and 2014-04-22 Gather more feedback on rebooted Annoying little bugs after GSoC start Status:    In progress - Andre sent an email to five GCI mentors on 2014-04-24 and received three answers Prepare introducing "Bug of the week" by talking to development teams Status:    Not done -- postponed to May Have a bugday in the second half of April Status:    Done: on 2014-04-29 about General MediaWiki, see Bug management/Triage/20140429

March 2014

March 2014 (With Guillaume) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools/Review (based on Project management tools/Review/Requirements), take the first implementation steps (possibly in Labs). Status:    In progress (With Guillaume) Have an IRC office hour about Project management tools Status:    Done on 2014-03-28 (With Guillaume) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision. Status:    Not done -- postponed to April (With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs based on Google Code-In experience; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week": Kill curated list on the wikipage; provide specific Bugzilla queries and "getting started" instructions for each area: Status:    Done on 2014-03-07 (diff) Introduce "Bug of the week" after talking to teams? Status:    Not done - postponed to Q2/2014 Better Bugzilla taxonomy: Discuss using classifications in Bugzilla and identify some initial non-controversial changes. - bugzilla:38990. Status:    In progress; first smaller cleanup steps about "Tools" and deprecated stuff are bugzilla:57738, bugzilla:54063, bugzilla:53986#c15, bugzilla:55351#c4, bugzilla:62386, bugzilla:62384; Proposal to use Bugzilla classifications on 2014-03-10 Bugzilla setup / code: Provide a NEEDINFO flag in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status:    In progress: (porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4) -- might get postponed to Q2/2014 Provide a way to mark an item as NEEDINFO in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status:    In progress: Created list of pros and cons of two implementations on 2014-03-10; next step is start broader discussion on wikitech-l@ and agree on which way to do Install component watching extension to be able to receive bugmail for specific product/component for devs and triagers, plus no more manual adding of people to auto-CC by admins - bugzilla:37105. Status:    Not done -- database issues when testing; not yet tested on 4.4 and upstream code is still 4.2 only. Porting more complicated as bmo will skip 4.4 -- postponed to Q2/2014

February 2014

February 2014 (With Guillaume) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools/Review (based on Project management tools/Review/Requirements), take the first implementation steps (possibly in Labs). Status:    In progress Prepare Bugzilla upgrade to 4.4 (and move to new datacenter) - Status:    Done. Outstanding steps from bugzilla:49597: (With Daniel and Sean) Switch database and DNS from old kaulen server to new zirconium server. Status:    Done on 2014-02-13 Show common queries on Bugzilla frontpage - bugzilla:22170. Status:    Done on 2014-02-13 Finalize Bugzilla etiquette draft. Status:    Done - 2014-02-05: Announcement Further small patches after 4.4 upgrade (License headers and template processing cleanup; numerous contributed Gerrit patches waiting). Status:    In progress (With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs based on Google Code-In experience; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week": Cover common "getting started" questions: Status:    Done added on 2014-02-18 Improve Bugzilla queries on Annoying little bugs to show a good subset: Status:    Done on 2014-02-18 Add guidelines for triagers how to identify a bug report that is good for this audience: Status:    Done by editing the "easy" keyword description on 2014-02-24 Retriage existing bugs with easy keyword: mostly Status:    Done

January 2014

January 2014 (With Guillaume) Meet Project management tools stakeholders, determine requirements, and document this research. Status:    Done by Guillaume here (With Daniel Zahn) Prepare Bugzilla upgrade to 4.4 (and move to new datacenter) - outstanding steps from bugzilla:49597: Upgrade Bugzilla on zirconium from 4.2 to 4.4. Status:    Done Apply 4.2 custom changes to Bugzilla on zirconium from Git repository. Status:    Done Apply Andre's 11 patches (linked here) in Gerrit to port our custom changes from 4.2 to 4.4. Status:    Done on 2014-01-07 Test Bugzilla on zirconium. Status:    Done on 2014-01-15 Make collectstats.pl work - bugzilla:29203. Status:    Done by dzahn here on 2014-01-29 (With Daniel and Sean) Switch database and DNS from old kaulen server to new zirconium server. Status:    Not done - tentative date: 2014-02-12 Show common queries on Bugzilla frontpage - bugzilla:22170. Status:    In progress - 2014-01-10: Patch in Gerrit; depends on 4.4 upgrade first Finalize Bugzilla etiquette draft once the lively discussion on its Talk page has ended. Status:    In progress - 2014-01-09: Announcement that discussion will be closed soon Fix inline displaying of image files in Bugzilla - bugzilla:54181. Status:    Done - andre successfully tested csteipp's patch on Labs on 2014-01-05; deployed on 2014-01-10 (With Quim) Finish running Google Code-In contest. Status:    Done

December 2013

December 2013 Google Code-In: Run and organize contest with Quim. Status:    In progress Agree and finalize "etiquette" draft for behavior in Bugzilla, as discussed on teampractices@. Status:    In progress - Discussion on Talk page still ongoing on 20131225 after asking for feedback on wikitech-l@. Evaluate Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools. Status:    In progress - kicked off on teampractices@ and wiki on 2013-12-13 Test Bugzilla 4.4 with our custom patches on Labs (or zirconium in eqiad if production is still on kaulen in Tampa). Status:    In progress, will need help from ops. Steps discussed between dzahn and aklapper on 2013-12-06; dzahn has set up a copy of Bugzilla 4.2 on zirconium in eqiad (see RT #4783). Next steps are upgrading that machine to Bugzilla 4.4, applying our custom patches, testing, and finally switching over.

November 2013

November 2013 Google Code-In: Define generic information (template) for all task descriptions; clean up & import tasks from wiki into Google Melange. Status:    Done (except for tasks missing a mentor) Finish cleaning up and syncing custom CSS in Wikimedia Bugzilla. Status:    Done - done (except for two CSS files) (bugzilla:54823) Write an "etiquette" draft for behavior in Bugzilla, as discussed on teampractices@. Status:    In progress - first draft available Start planning evaluation of Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools. Status:    Not done Start porting our custom Bugzilla patches by porting our 4.2 custom patches to deploy on a vanilla Bugzilla 4.4. Status:    Done (bugzilla:49597#c5)

Quarterly Goals

October to December 2014

October to December 2014 Have Bugzilla entirely migrated to Phabricator Status:    Done phab:T15, in Nov 2014 Have RT migrated to Phabricator Status:    In progress phab:T38, in Dec 2014 Have a proof of concept for Code Review in Phabricator Status:    In progress Have a public bug day approximately once per month. Status:    In progress, planning next on in phab:T78684 (With Quim) Expose a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status:    On hold -- after GCI, phab:T563 Successfully (co-)organize Wikimedia's participation in Google Code-In Status:    In progress, phab:T76720

July to September 2014

July to September 2014 Progress on migrating to Phabricator: Set up Phabricator production instance, set up Legalpad instance, have test import of RT/Bugzilla data Status:    In progress Have a public bug day approximately once per month. Status:    Done (Pywikibot on 20140724, UploadWizard on 20140909, PDF renderer in 201410?) (With Quim) Expose a regular, easy "bug of the week" for new code contributors with rotating support of Wikimedia development teams (based on Annoying little bugs) Status:    postponed to October

April to June 2014

April to June 2014 (With Guillaume) Do what's needed to drive Project_management_tools/Review. Status:    Done (With Quim) Expose an easy "bug of the week" with dev team support (after Annoying little bugs is in shape) Status:    In progress, Andre preparing Have a public bug day approximately once per month. Status:    Done on 20140428 and 20140624, planning for 201407 started Some more Bugzilla taxonomy cleanup. - bugzilla:38990 Status:    On hold -- not enough time for this plus low priority now that we favor Phabricator Investigate closing components of extensions archived in the code repository. - bugzilla:47540 Status:    On hold, postponing Investigate splitting "enhancement" out of Bugzilla's "severity" dropdown and make it separate. - bugzilla:58096 Status:    On hold, low priority & only if we stick with Bugzilla -- not enough time for this plus low priority now that we favor Phabricator

January to March 2014

January to March 2014 Social: (With Guillaume) Meet Project management tools stakeholders, determine requirements, and document this research. Status:    Done (With Guillaume) Lead the community discussion about the shortlist of candidates for Project management tools, take the first implementation steps (possibly in Labs). Status:    In progress (With Guillaume) Set up and facilitate the community RfC about Project management tools, and bring it to a decision. Status:    Not done - postponed to April 2014 (With Quim) Reboot Annoying little bugs; Bugzilla's easy keyword; exposing an easy "bug of the week": Based on Google Code-In experience, decrease manual curation work by providing links to common "getting started" questions. Status:    Done on 2014-03-07 Finalize Bugzilla etiquette draft. Status:    Done - 2014-02-05: Announcement Better Bugzilla taxonomy: Discuss using classifications in Bugzilla and identify some initial non-controversial changes. - bugzilla:38990. Status:    In progress; first smaller cleanup steps about "Tools" and deprecated stuff are bugzilla:57738, bugzilla:54063, bugzilla:53986#c15, bugzilla:55351#c4, bugzilla:62386, bugzilla:62384; Proposal to use Bugzilla classifications on 2014-03-10 Bugzilla setup / code: Upgrade Bugzilla to 4.4 Status:    Done on 2014-02-13 Common queries on Bugzilla frontpage - bugzilla:22170. Status:    Done on 2014-02-13 Provide a way to mark an item as NEEDINFO in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status:    In progress: Created list of pros and cons of two implementations on 2014-03-10; next step is start broader discussion on wikitech-l@ and agree on which way to do Install component watching extension to be able to receive bugmail for specific product/component for devs and triagers, plus no more manual adding of people to auto-CC by admins. Status:    Not done -- postponed to Q2/2014

October to December 2013

October to December 2013 Note to myself: Try to keep in sync with ECT Quarterly goals and ECT Monthly goals. Social: Prepare and organize Wikimedia participation in Google Code-In with Quim. Status:    In progress Work on "etiquette" draft for behavior in Bugzilla, as discussed on teampractices@. Status:    In progress - Discussion on Talk page still ongoing on 20131225 after asking for feedback on wikitech-l@. Evaluate Project management / issue tracking requirements and potential tools. Status:    In progress - kicked off on teampractices@ and wiki on 2013-12-13 Andre to learn more about / understand better Wikimedia's Release Management from Greg. Status:    Not done won't happen this quarter, too busy with additional projects added while in Q4 (BZ etiquette & PM Tools eval) mw:Annoying_little_bugs - try announcing an exposed easy "bug of the week" for new contributors, with support from dev teams. Status:    Not done -- Google Code-In has priority over this. Bugzilla setup / code: Show InlineHistory in Bugzilla - bugzilla:47256. Status:    Done Bring "guided bug report form" into a state that it can be used to report issues for Bugzilla newbies - bugzilla:36762. Status:    Done Start preparing Bugzilla upgrade to 4.4 (and move server to new datacenter) - bugzilla:49597: CSS cleanup. Status:    Done Create custom patches for the 4.4 codebase. Status:    Done on 20131128 - bugzilla:49597#c5 Test locally Status:    Done on 20131128 - bugzilla:49597#c5 Clean up custom Perl CPAN modules and replace by distribution packages; puppetize Bugzilla's package requirements - Status:    Done - RT #4783 Copy current production Bugzilla 4.2 to zirconium in eqiad (from kaulen in Tampa) for testing. Status:    Done on 20131225 Upgrade Bugzilla on zirconium from 4.2 to 4.4. Status:    Not done Apply custom changes to Bugzilla on zirconium. Status:    Not done Test Bugzilla on zirconium. Status:    Not done Switch from old server to new server. Status:    Not done Only after 4.4 upgrade: Provide a NEEDINFO flag in Bugzilla - bugzilla:36064. Status:    In progress - moved to Q1/2014 as 4.4 upgrade takes longer Only after 4.4 upgrade: Install component watching extension. Status:    Not done -- database issues when testing; not yet tested on 4.4 and upstream code is still 4.2 only. - moved to Q1/2014 as 4.4 upgrade takes longer Puppetize Bugzilla - bugzilla:51036 Status:    In progress - dzahn of ops working on this since 12/2013

Finished / completed tasks

Also see the weekly status updates until 2014 for more verbose information.

• 20141124: Wikimedia migrated from Bugzilla to Phabricator
• 20140422: Rename "Tools" product to "Utilities" in Bugzilla - bugzilla:53986#c23
• 20140213: Puppetize Bugzilla - bugzilla:51036
• 20140213: Show common queries on Bugzilla frontpage - bugzilla:22170
• 20140213: Upgrade Bugzilla from 4.2.7 to 4.4.1 - bugzilla:49597
• 20140213: Move Bugzilla from old kaulen server in Tampa to new zirconium server in Eqiad
• 20140205: Finalize Bugzilla etiquette (Announcement)
• 20131215: Taxonomy cleanup: Move "CiviCRM" product into a "Wikimedia" subcomponent - bugzilla:57738
• 20131202: Warn that patches should go to Gerrit instead of Bugzilla - bugzilla:42606
• 20131202: Link on top of enter_bug.cgi to the guided bug entry form - bugzilla:52696
• 20131128: Port our custom patches from Bugzilla 4.2 to 4.4 - bugzilla:49597#c5
• 20131115: Decrease our custom CSS differences with upstream code (16 CSS files deleted) - bugzilla:54823
• 20131111: Renamed "shellpolicy" keyword to "community-consensus-needed" - bugzilla:49494
• 20131026: Guided bug report form for Bugzilla newbies available - bugzilla:36762
• 20131014: Enabled InlineHistory by default for all users - bugzilla:47256
• 20130930: Create good relation to upstream Bugzilla developers via attending upstream Bugzilla meetings and being active on IRC and the support-bugzilla mailing list
• 20130926: Do not limit Product column in buglist.cgi to 8 chars - bugzilla:40244
• 20130925: Show InlineHistory in Bugzilla - bugzilla:47256
• 20130901: Clean up open UsabilityInitative tickets as per bugzilla:36111#c1 and bugzilla:24335#c2. - bugzilla:52943
• 20130830: Documenting best practices in Bugzilla via blogpost miniseries -- see the list
• 20130827: Quick "Show other bug reports in this component" query link in bug report - bugzilla:46413
• 20130723: Replace "patch-in-gerrit" keyword by an automatically set status. Related: bugzilla:39399, bugzilla:39402; Discussion started on wikitech-l | Gerrit Notification Patch
• 20130614: Display "email" instead of "login" string in Bugzilla - bugzilla:24992
• 20130614: Start documenting best Bugzilla practices in a blog series linked from mw:Bug_management#Tricks_and_best_practices_in_Bugzilla List
• 20130613: Document Bugzilla administrator rights and guidelines
• 20130611: More useful Bugzilla frontpage - bugzilla:22170
• 20130508: Wikimedia Labs instance for Bugzilla at boogs.wmflabs.org created by Ori
• 20130422: Enhance "Weekly Bug Summary" email on wikitech-l to have correct data and include most urgent issues - bugzilla:45770
• 20130416: Cleanup: Closed remaining (Uniwiki extension tickets as it's unmaintained (part of cleanup bugday).
• 20130412: Enhance "Weekly Bug Summary" email on wikitech-l to have correct data and be more useful - bugzilla:45770
• 20130408: Removed "bugsmash" keyword from all Bugzilla tickets, so it could be used with its actual meaning.
• 20130326: Search tickets currently in four different components, consider simplification
• 20130322: Taxonomy: Merged several mobile apps - bugzilla:41922
• 20130319: Start having ~bimonthly IRC office hours on Bug management
• 20130211: Creation of Bug Life Cycle flowchart by Valerie, embedded in mw:Bug management/Bug report life cycle
• 20130129: First bugday, organized by Valerie and Andre
• 20130115: Finalized How to report a bug page (with help of Guillaume) for translations
• 20130111: Document how development teams use Bugzilla - mw:Bug management/Development teams usage
• 20130106: Publish list of Bugzilla admins
• 201301: Docs: Further update and clean up of bug management related documentation: Bug management Doc Rewrite
• 20121217: Smaller Bugzilla bugfixes: bugzilla:40344, bugzilla:41321
• 201212: Docs: Guidelines for creating new products in BZ
• 201212: Docs: Instructions for project maintainers how to add/change products and settings
• 201212: Docs: Document who checks BZ security updates? - Andre, documented on mw:Bug management
• 201212: Docs: "upstream" keyword policy: "Upstream ticket URL should exist when setting, documented on mw:Bug management/Upstream bugtrackers now part of mw:Upstream projects#Components
• 201212: Disable use of RESOLVED LATER resolution as as discussed
• 20121204: Upgrade Bugzilla to version 4.2 upgrade - bugzilla:33158
• Find out which extensions are deployed in production to give them higher priority when triaging - done and implement in Greasemonkey script, cf. bugzilla:36738), Category:Extensions used on Wikimedia, Gerrit
• 201111: Bigger updates to Triage guide
• 201211: Creation of "immediate" priority in Bugzilla (discussion) due to varying use of "highest"
• 201211: consider introducing a status WAITINGFORUPSTREAM like in Mer Bugzilla - not wanted as per mailing list discussion, use lowest priority and "upstream" keyword instead
• 20121108: List extensions that are deployed but should get killed? User:Malyacko/ExtensionsToUndeploy
• 20121108: Rename old "MediaWiki%20extensions/Wikidata" component from OmegaWiki vs new Wikidata project - done by Chad
• 20121031: Publish Greasemonkey triage scripts
• 20121030: Docs: Create an UpstreamBugtrackers overview page: mw:Bug management/Upstream bugtrackers now moved to mw:Upstream projects#Components

Other stuff

Random Phabricator queries

See Bug management/Phabricator queries.