https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54739
--- Comment #10 from Oliver Keyes <oke...@wikimedia.org> --- I guess "duplicate" would be a better description. So, we have two priorities when it comes to surfacing software changes/issues/features/whatever: *Transparency to the community working on it. BZ doesn't directly provide for that - that's more a mw.org/enwiki kind of thing. *Transparency to the developers working on it. BZ has traditionally provided for this and served as a repository for not only "bugs" or individual "enhancements" but complex behavioural and interaction changes, such as this'n. The issue is we're switching to using Mingle for projects under active development, and so we've done work to integrate BZ and Mingle for bugs and put big, thorny issues such as how we handle edit conflicts in Mingle so they can be tracked within the team and dealt with with design/product/engineering/community input. So, having this in bugzilla feels somewhat wrong for our workflows (we're not using BZ for tracking complex problems, since the sort of long-form conversations you need to have don't make sense here), somewhat duplicative (bugzilla entries are copied over into mingle for bug-tracking, so we now have two tickets, effectively, covering this problem) and not really aiding in transparency (BZ is opaque to the community and the devs working on this problem are participating in the conversations about it elsewhere). What I'd suggest in this case is closing as..something - Duplicate, maybe? Or just marking it as lowest-priority and closing it as fixed when we've got edit conflict behaviour worked out - and pushing design (who are currently working on EC behaviour, as I understand it) to be transparent about what they're doing and thinking via mw.org, the design and flow FAQs on enwiki and mw.org, and invite participation from end users there. Does that make any sense? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
