Bug management

Wikimedia Foundation project Bug management Management of Wikimedia's bug tracker. Group: Developer Advocacy Lead: Andre Klapper

Wikimedia's Phabricator installation is used to track problem reports and feature requests related to MediaWiki code, other Wikimedia-specific components (such as extensions or tools), and Wikimedia wikis (such as Wikipedia).

Sorting and solving bug reports is a collaborative effort by users and developers of the community together with Wikimedia's bugwrangler.

Activity scope

Bug management is a perennial activity. Anyone can contribute! Activities include:

• coordinating, triaging, and organizing the current bug reports in Phabricator
• writing documentation for bug management

Also see Bugwrangler for tasks.

Documentation

For Bug Reporters

• How to report a bug

For Project Maintainers

• Good practices for Phabricator project management
• How to add/edit projects in Phabricator

For Developers

• Mentored software projects (and tasks) to start with
• Small software tasks (without mentoring)

For Triagers / Bugsquad Community

• Triage: Definition of "triaging" and information on bug triage sessions
  • Triage guide: How you can help to improve bug reports, and tools to save time triaging
  • Easy tasks and entry points to start triaging
  • Bugsquad meeting / Bugday preparations
• Places (Village Pumps, forums) to potentially check for reports about issues
• Useful queries in Phabricator
• List of upstream bugtrackers and URLs
• Project:WikiProject Bug Squad (inactive)

For Phabricator Administrators / the Bugwrangler

• Administrator permissions in Phabricator
• Project creation is performed by the Project-Admins project and logged in T103700.
• Working on Phabricator's codebase
• (Obsolete) Monthly Bugwrangler activity updates were made available under Status updates. (Note: The bugwrangler is employed by the Wikimedia Foundation to do bug management, see scope above.) To follow current work, see the corresponding Phabricator tasks and workboards.
• (Obsolete) Plans and ideas of the bugwrangler what to work on - help welcome! (Outdated after moving from Bugzilla to Phabricator)
• How to run IRC office hours on bug management

For everybody (General / Misc)

• Permissions in Phabricator
• Phabricator behavior etiquette
• Subpages of this page (mostly historical and irrelevant)