Bug management/Triage/20130402

Starting on April 1st, 2013 and all week long with a dedicated session on April 02, we're cleaning up bug reports related to skin/theme and page rendering issues.

Skin and page rendering bug reports edit

What: Bug Triage of Skin and page rendering reports - see the full list of reports. We will be focusing on cleaning up, improving the quality of the reports, and retesting some on mediawiki.org or test2.wikipedia.org.

When: Week of April 01, 2013, with a dedicated Bug Day on April 02 from 16:30 UTC until 20:30 UTC. This is an ongoing activity: you can arrive / leave at any time.

Where: #wikimedia-office connect IRC channel. After joining on IRC, say Hello Bug Squad!. Look for users andre__ and valeriej. We will welcome you with instructions and help. Our progress is documented in the Bug Day Etherpad.

Who: Anyone who is interested, including you!

Why: The idea came up in the Bugsquad discussion space.

See also How to triage.

This is a weekly QA activity organized by the Bug Squad team. Join us!

Attendees edit

Results edit

Reports edit

87 reports were changed in this week, 60+ of them being identifiable as part of the bugday:

Highlights edit

WORKSFORME edit

INVALID edit

WONTFIX edit

DUPLICATE edit

Moved edit

to gather the attention of maintainers sensitive with multilingual content.

Demoted edit

Other edit

Promotion edit

Evaluation edit

For an example, see QA/Browser testing/Search features#Evaluation.

★★★★★

  • Summary: Best results so far in terms of dedicated people and reports addressed. We also fine tuned the announcement to be sent in future bug days including a URL a personal list of reports.
  • Results: 87 reports were changed in this week, 60+ of them being identifiable as part of the Bug Day. 11 highlighted, 9 WORKSFORME, 3 INVALID, 1 WONTFIX, 1 DUPLICATE, 10 moved to other components (see Accurate bug triage metrics)
  • Participation: 10 contributors declared, from which 4 were WMF employees (see Accurate bug triage metrics).
    • New: FIXME
    • Repeating: FIXME
    • Mood: good collaboration during the Bug Day scheduled hours. Going for #wikimedia-office helped a lot isolating this activity.
  • Documentation: No complaints received. Seems to be stable.
  • Promotion: Email to bug reporters considered useful but we got 2 peoples replying that the URL was vague. Now we have a better URL showing only your personal results.
  • Developer team: Yes, especially Dantman (talk · contribs) and Matma_Rex (talk · contribs) were involved and supporting. The Bug Day's scope was MatmaRex's idea.
  • Organizers: We had to invest less time organizing and we obtained better results. Maybe we are onto something.  :)
  • Lessons learned:
    • This was the first bugday in #wikimedia-office instead of #wikimedia-dev which was less noisy and allowed to explicitly welcome people entering the channel.
    • Using #wikimedia-office requires checking first that there are no other office hours planned at the same time.
    • Outreach to cardinal developers was successful; documentation was updated accordingly
    • Having a prepared short list of reports to start with would be helpful, to be able to point new triagers to good tickets to start with.