On the QA front, this came up in a WMF discussion recently, and I proposed it as a Weekend Testing Americas session, but it would work equally well at Wikimania, and it fits our goal of bringing in more community testing nicely:
---- Wikipedia has a large number of open bug reports, like around 8000 right now, and that number is growing by approximately 3000/year last I looked. It is probable that many of those open bugs should be marked RESOLVED or possibly UNCONFIRMED, but our triaging resources are scarce right now. So what I'm proposing is a session to take a manageable number of open bug reports for a particular "extension" or two, read them, try to reproduce them, and then either a) mark them RESOLVED or else b) mark them UNCONFIRMED and/or c) leave a helpful comment on the open bug describing what the tester found when trying to reproduce the issue. An example would be https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&query_format=advanced&component=Moodbar&product=MediaWiki%20extensions&list_id=123286 ---- Our community testing session with Openhatch on June 9 was pretty successful and a lot of fun, this might be a nice way to get people familiar with how we manage issues in Bugzilla, which can be pretty daunting for newcomers. And of course it is a repeatable exercise, so doing it at Wikimania does not prevent doing it again with WTA or anywhere else. -Chris _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
