[Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Until today, an advanced query in our Bugzilla's installation defaulted to returning bugs marked “WONTFIX” and “LATER”. Rob and I agreed that we didn't think this wasn't the behavior most people want so I changed it to remove those resolutions from the defaults. Another change I made was to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Chad
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Mark A. Hershberger mhershber...@wikimedia.org wrote: Until today, an advanced query in our Bugzilla's installation defaulted to returning bugs marked “WONTFIX” and “LATER”. We changed this awhile back because we wanted to encourage people to search for dupes.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Max Semenik
On 13.04.2011, 22:01 Mark wrote: Another change I made was to adjust the default priority to “Low” from “Normal” so that most bugs don't end up in the priority level that I want to use for “This should be fixed by next release”. Perhaps many new bugs should be a priority, but I'd like there

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Krinkle
Max Semenik wrote: On 13.04.2011, 22:01 Mark wrote: Another change I made was to adjust the default priority to “Low” from “Normal” so that most bugs don't end up in the priority level that I want to use for “This should be fixed by next release”. Perhaps many new bugs should be a

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread OQ
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. Defaulting new bugs to a low priority doesn't seem very friendly to new users. They don't know (and shouldn't have to know) what the bugmeister's organization is. Then make a triage priority and default them all

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
Max Semenik maxsem.w...@gmail.com writes: This may piss people off (what? my bug is not in their plans?!). How is that different from how we've been pissing people off with ~2500 bugs against MediaWiki that were opened more than six months ago and have sat, ignored, without resolution. I think

Re: [Wikitech-l] Change in Bugzilla's defaults

2011-04-13 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: OQ overlo...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Krinkle krinklem...@gmail.com wrote: I agree. Defaulting new bugs to a low priority doesn't seem very friendly to new users. They don't know (and shouldn't have to know) what the bugmeister's